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Preface — William S. Ashbrook, Historian 5 

Discursive — F. H. Shelton, Acting Historian 8 

Officers, 1913-1922 13 

Reunions, 1913-1922 14 

Statistics 17 

'87 in the Great War 19 

'87's Helps 23 

Class Roster 25 

Biographical Continuations 30 

Class Membership; Deceased 129 

In Memoriam 131 

Valedictory — Oliver Huckel 144 

ILLUSTRATIONS 

Twentieth Annual Reunion, 1907 Frontispiece 

Twenty-Fifth Annual Reunion, 1912 Opp. 13 

Thirtieth Annual Reunion, 191 7. State in 

Schuylkill Opp. 1 7 

'87's Memorial Tablet Opp. 19 

Thirtieth Annual Reunion, 191 7. State in 

Schuylkill Opp. 23 

Members of '87, 1922 Opp. 128 



PREFACE 

Note: It is typical of the spirit of '87 that with the former Historian sruggling to 
recover from the grippe and consequently unable to perform his duty there should be 
found so excellent a substitute as Shelton to take on the responsibilities and the labor of 
the Thirty-fifth Year History and, what is more, to do it cheerfully. Incidentally, the 
former Historian is inclined to think the Class will benefit by the change. It is hard to 
teach an old dog new tricks and the old Historian has already been called on for four 
Histories besides several smaller historical undertakings at other five-year periods. Both 
candor and modesty suggest to him, therefore, that this latest volume which comes out 
under a new editor will be an improvement on what has gone before. On one point the new 
editor, Shelton, has been particularly firm — he has insisted that the old Historian write 
the preface, and write it before he has seen the History. — W. S. A. 

Thirty-five years! It is hard at first to orient oneself to this un- 
escapable fact. It is hard to realize that the graduate of 1922 thinks 
of us as we did of 1852 when our sheepskins were new. The word 
"think" is, perhaps, almost too strong a word. Doubtless it would 
be more accurate to confess that 1922 scarcely "thinks" of 1887 at 
all, but subconsciously classifies us in the same limbo of ancient 
alumni which includes '77, '67, '57 and all the other 7's of the past. 

But are we really old, then? A thousand times no. We are 
perhaps "carefully matured," as a Briton says of his cigars, or, (if 
the Volstead Amendment permits the simile) well mellowed with 
age, like those pipes of Madeira which our ancestors used to send 
on the China voyage to ripen properly, and which they then adver- 
tised in The Gazette or The Centinel as sound and full-bodied. The 
word full-bodied may seem a trifle too appropriate, but it goes with 
soundness and mellowness. 

It was said of Wellington's Peninsular veterans that they were 
not braver than other troops, but that they were brave half an hour 
longer. We like to think of ourselves as possessing for half an hour 
longer the bravery of youth as we celebrate our Thirty-fifth Reunion 
and form hollow square to resist the onset of the years that are to 
come. Certainly, we have lost none of the zest for our class life. 
Rather that zest has increased. We are keener than ever before 
for our Reunions, and the cockles of our hearts are warmed to an 
even greater degree "by '87's singing on '87's Day." 

New honors have come to us. Pepper has exchanged the Achar- 
nian chiton for the Senatorial toga, and Newbold, sighing for new 
worlds to conquer, has unlocked the Roger Bacon cipher. We could 



go on, but we fear the list of our honors would read like Homer's 
catalogue of the ships. We are happy in these honors which '87 
has won, but we are a-modest enough not to be surprised. Why 
should we be? Did not dear old Brigham prophesy in his booming 
voice on Class Day that George Pepper was going to be President 
of the United States? 

To our fellow alumni of other classes there has always been 
something indefinable and therefore somewhat mysterious in the 
spirit of '87. And, frankly, we must confess that we ourselves can- 
not altogether solve the mystery, nor are we sure that we would wish 
to solve it if we could. There are imponderables in our Class life 
which count for more than the ponderables. The Class spirit feeds 
upon vitamines too elusive even for the decipherer of Roger Bacon. 
Those of us who have entered into the Freedom of '87, know we're 
free, Dr. Johnson fashion, and that's all there is to it. As the 
years pass we value our privilege more and more. We gather even 
more expectantly on '87's Day and we set more store just upon being 
together. For the serious as well as for the nonsense we have even 
a keener relish — for Stradling's talk on the new physics as well as 
for Amram's letter on the new pedagogy at the University; we can 
even appreciate the clever turns of Karl's verses despite the accom- 
paniment of Russell's blague. 

We owe much to Russell. At a time when not only the army 
was being demobilized, but the civilian population was being de- 
mobilized too, and was finding the world topsy-turvy, and everybody 
was scolding everybody else for being slack, Russell imperturbably 
conceived the fine idea that to the '87 Endowment Fund already 
created by the Class in memory of its deceased members, there should 
be added and joined another fund in memory of the three sons of 
members of the Class of '87 who had fallen in the War. But 
Russell not only conceived the idea, he did all the work of securing 
the contributions to the fund and of planning the tablet on the '87 
House in the Little Quad, which accompanied the gift to the Univer- 
sity. Those of us who gathered when the tablet was unveiled never 
think of the occasion without experiencing again the same feeling of 
sorrow for the gallant lives lost, Thomas Roberts Reath, Henry 
Howard Houston, 2nd, and Benjamin Lee, and the same feeling of 
sympathy for the fathers, (our Classmates in '87), and for the 
mothers who were bereaved of their sons. 

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It has been one of the finest traditions of '87 not to think of 
the Class tie as broken by death. The names of those who have died 
are still carried on our Class roll. Their memory is of the warp 
and woof of our Class life, and is not to be unravelled. It is for 
the reason that we feel them so veritably present with us in spirit 
that we forbear to have any "great divide" in our Class roll. 

But this preface grows too long. There is a limit to one's 
indulgence in hors d'oeuvres, if one would keep one's appetite un- 
spoilt for the serious eating to follow. But before we get to the 
serious eating, gentlemen of '87, there's a toast to be drunk, and to 
be drunk standing, "To Pennsylvania, God bless her, dear mother 
of '87. We, your sons, come back to you with a love grown stronger 
and tenderer than when we were of your household, and with a 
more loyal fellowship toward all the host who wear the Red and 
Blue. Hail Pennsylvania." 

W. S. A. 



DISCURSIVE 

Simeon Ford, when keeping the old Grand Union Hotel in 
New York was once jocularly asked as to what qualifications he had 
that warranted his being in the hotel business. Ford's personal 
architecture is a good deal like that of our own Montgomery, in 
being characterized by altitude as the major dimension, with width 
and thickness almost negligible, and he replied that he was at any 
rate, peculiarly suitably built to climb thro' the transom in cases of 
suicide. 

This comes to mind, in the asking of Shelton to act as editor 
of this, '87's 35th year History, in the inability of the supposed 
chronic editor, — the most capable, and the much beloved Ashbrook. 
The only real qualification that Shelton has for such work, is a 
toughness of mental hide, which will at any rate, make the ultimate 
and certain criticisms, skid from his back like water from the pro- 
verbial duck. That is no doubt a good thing — for Shelton. On 
the other side, is his distinct lack of literary ability. Shelton is 
naturally a mechanic. To build a grand stand to house the glorious 
aggregation styled "the Class of '87" would be to him a delight. 
But to build a literary monument, is, for him, about as ticklish a 
task as to walk a tightrope. For his conception of that sort of work, 
is, for instance — to convey a proper literary flavor — the dropping of 
a few quotations from the classics, once in so often; in which field 
his knowledge is nihil and wherein he wanders with the delicacy of 
a goat; or the casual interpolation of a few Latin phrases — in which 
the use of even "quod vide" is accompanied by fear and has to be 
checked up by reference to the Cyclopedia Brittannica, sprinkled 
with such; or ever and anon dropping into French, in some simile, 
to impress with his all around knowledge — in which he is likely to 
use "jeunes fille" as meaning only its surface effect of "young girls" ! 
As to grammar, he has lost whatever he ever had, in the thirty-nine 
years since the days of MacElroy, his construction is as unsound as 
the morals and physique of a tenderloin habitue, and his logic is as 
unconvincing ofttimes, as the artificial coloring of a modern "flap- 
per." Shelton therefore sincerely feels, that the Committee of Se- 
lection, with small doubt in the throes of personal sidestepping, was 

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perforce more of a Committee of Desperation, and has taken awful 
chances. 

Shelton was however loyal to the Class draft, and — subject to 
the limitations but molecularily intimated above, and to his own 
affairs — a factor — said "Yes" and has gone to the task. With a bit 
of persistence, a dash of boot-strap gumption, a camouflage of august- 
ness, like a new policeman in his uniform, and a lot of help from 
some others of the Class, he trusts that the accouchement resulting 
from his sudden wedding with the 1922 needs of the Class, will re- 
sult in sufficient historical and literary fruit to fill the expectant and 
metaphorical Class perambulator, known as a "matrimonial fruit 
basket." 

Shelton's tabloid idea of this 35th History, is that it should be 
simply a current bulletin of the record of the Class as a whole, and 
of the present status of each of the individuals who make it up; for 
the ten-year period since the last or 25th year History, issued in 
1912. He views with alarm, as our politicians express it, anything 
else as being extraneous and unnecessary. Being an engineer and 
no Oscar Wilde, he views scenic effects, in the form of poems, odes, 
rhythms, stanzas and verse, frequently included — as witness twenty 
pages of such in the 20-year issue, — as best to exclude in this issue; 
and any doubt on that score was at once dissipated upon receiving 
printers' estimates, the resulting state of coma from which, he has as 
yet scarcely recovered. He views also, enconiums and more or less 
laboriously extracted letters of felicitation and good wishes from 
eight other assorted classes, two provosts and ten professors — as 
graced twenty- four pages before — as no longer appropriate or need- 
ful. While such may impress the adolescent graduate, the present 
business-battle scarred and world scarred veteran of '87 — and who 
has now crossed the fifty year mark, — in Shelton's opinion is no 
longer impressed by such, especially if having to pay the cost of the 
printing thereof, from his own pocket. He has therefore eliminated 
the customary poetry and the typed compliments from the outside. 
His scope and his objective has been simply to make a sincere effort 
to get all the information that he could from each living member, 
as of this date. After no little effort in this, he has recorded all 
that he has secured, and having done so, Shelton now declines to 
worry or be responsible for what he did not get, because of such not 
having been extended to him. What he thus has compiled and de- 



livers will at any rate be the present milestone, from which the 
next laborer in such highways can start, when the 50th year History 
in 1937 is essayed; and before which he doubts any intervening 
issue will be ventured, because of the depleted exchequer resulting 
from this one, and the time required to sort out, classify and pigeon- 
hole the grandchildren that seem to now be '87's greatest feature. 

A chiefest feature of such a history as this, is the recording 
of our best and final thoughts of and for, those members who have 
gone before ; those whom the Grim Reaper has beckoned to and taken, 
in the past ten years; yet those whom, even so — if we are rated in 
the Great Hereafter according to our worldly viewed deserts — will, 
in Shelton's humble belief, even there be advantaged because of having 
lived better lives on this earth as a result of having been members 
of a class with as high ideals and Golden Rule deeds, as has '87. 

In the doing of all his work at large, Shelton has at times writ- 
ten in a vein of jocularity, in the belief of why be too serious, in 
a world with enough gravity at best? But in any little banterings, 
gibes, digs, pokes or pleasantries written of or about any member, 
it can be but obvious that in such there is neither intended nor can 
be, a scintilla of fling; nor must such be construed. How can such 
be, when Shelton's platform and viewpoint is like unto a thermome- 
ter, whose low point is best of feeling and whose high point reads 
sheer affection, for the various members of the class. 

The working up of a Class History carries with it, its own 
peculiar interest and illumination upon mankind — even of the '87 
brand. If it takes war, love, politics or the Volstead act to bring 
out the varieties of the human individual, so indeed does a Class 
History. Some members — most — have cooperated to a high, and 
some to the Nth degree. Others have failed to, to the same degree ; 
with all the gradations between. Such pretty well reflects the meas- 
ure in which the individual man of record on '87's rolls, is interested 
in the since maintenance of the post-graduate organization. That 
interest varies from a perfectly negative zero, to a positive of al- 
most a hundred per cent. The presumptive reasons, invite some 
analysis. 

The zero man, if questioned, is apt to argue as to why he should 
maintain a class interest; that it is an artificial prolonging of ad- 
mitted past pleasant personal contacts but contacts of so long ago as 
to mean nothing now; the accident of one's classmates — like poor 



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relations, thrust upon one by fate and not of one's choice. The 
affluent amongst such zero viewers, of there being any need of or 
use in class organization and maintenance, and with local environ- 
ment all sufficient for their human comforts — and with a shade of 
selfishness — are apt to forget the less affluent of the class, who in 
numerous cases have found some of their largest and best social and 
human associations, in the class and in its continuance. And it 
seems to Shelton, that those who on such lines decry the use of keep- 
ing up the class associations, would be yet the first to hunt up Lincoln, 
residing opposite the Bahamas in Florida, in the hope of "something 
doing"; or to look up Wilson in Havana — and as an '87 man — if 
there and needing a surgeon! 

But the hundred percenters, on the other side, it seems to Shel- 
ton, take a far finer view of class perpetuation. Admitting from 
one viewpoint, the above, they yet point out that some of the finest 
things in life are human friendships and affections, and that the 
earliest and oldest are the best and most enduring and that the main- 
tenance of such is always worth while or even worth effort. They 
point out too, that the man who has received an education at a 
college, has, with small doubt, been advantaged in life, in breadth 
of view, understanding, and interest in life's things, in a measure 
probably more than what he paid for that education in dollars, and 
that therefore to the one who would be a true sport, and play fair 
in moral obligations, there is a measure of duty resulting, to in the 
future assist such college ; which work is so logically done thro' a 
class organization. They point out that that is a very real and great 
reason for maintaining a live class organization. Also to the Golden 
Rule of practical help that can be from time to time extended where 
needed to the wives or children of former members, to whom friends 
are vital when fate is harsh. All such reasons for the maintaining 
of an active class organization in later years are far finer and above 
the mere matter of annual reunions and personal pleasure. 

With such opposite viewpoints, have the returns been tinctured, 
that Shelton has received. There were 118 sent out, to the total 
number of men of the class living at this date. Of these, 25 have 
not replied at all ; 2 made reply, but gave only their names and 
present addresses; 27 have suffered from modesty apparently, in 
feeling that they had but little to tell about, and therefore have 
made unduly scant returns; 56 have replied quite fully and most 



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helpfully, and 8 have replied copiously — splendidly. To all how- 
ever who have made reply, and in whatever measure — much or little 
— Shelton extends his thanks, and his hearty appreciation. To those 
from whom for some reason, a first inquiry, a second, and a third, 
plus two or three assorted requests from others, elicited no reply, he 
yet wishes long life and happiness; and a reconsideration of being 
such bad boys, for the historian of 1937! 

The original number of names on '87's roll, was one hundred 
and sixty-eight. In the thirty-five years elapsing since graduation 
or college days, an even fifty have been taken by death ; or about 
thirty per cent. Whether that, in the abstract, is a greater or less 
number than our insurance members will tell us was to be expected 
by their old mortality tables, is of more academic than practical 
concern. It is the seventy per cent that now remains, to which our 
eyes must turn, and upon which we must dwell. Happily that fine 
and large number of our class is still "going strong" ; but with the 
number shrinking, must we not all the more cherish and esteem those 
who are left? 

When what '87's men have done — but lightly touched upon in 
the biographical sketch continuations in the following pages — is borne 
in mind, in all fields of human energy and activity; in civic life; in 
industry; in personal endeavor; in support of its Alma Mater; in 
class work; in spirit and in actuality and in general, comprehensive 
and high level accomplishment, it is easy to see why it has ever been 
regarded as the premier class of modern times of the University of 
Pennsylvania. 

Take it by and large, unequalled by preceding classes, from the 
time of old Ben Franklin down to 1887, nor surpassed, if equalled 
since, in prestige and record, it is to the editor, the Matterhorn of 
the University's classes. 

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OFFICERS OF THE CLASS OF '87 SINCE 1912 

1913: President, William Townsend Wright. 

Vice-President, Louis Piers White. 
19 14: President, John McArthur Harris. 

Vice-President, Frederick William Wilson Graham. 
191 5: President, David Werner Amram. 

Vice-President, Edgar Pardee Earle. 
19 16: President, Thomas Love Latta. 

Vice-President Oliver Huckel. 
191 7: President, William Tennent Moffly. 

Vice-President, Francis John Pryor. 
1918: President, John Allen. 

Vice-President, George Leidlie Martin. 
1 9 19: President, James Milliken. 

Vice-President, William McLean. 
1920: President, George Flowers Stradling. 

Vice-President, William Holmes Cookman. 
1 92 1 : President, Randolph Potter Russell. 

Vice-President, Andre William Seguin. 

Second Vice-President, Milton Valentine Snyder. 
1922: President, Charles Tyler Cowperthwait. 

Vice-President, Francis Asbury Bruner. 

Second Vice-President, John Dawson Hawkins. 
The following offices are permanent, not being changed at the 
yearly Reunions, and have been occupied by the incumbents as below, 
thro' the ten year period without change: 
Secretary, Witmer Stone. 
Treasurer ■ James Somers Smith, Jr. 
Historian, William Sinclair Ashbrook. 



Note: In 1921 the office of Second Vice-President was created, in order 
to have a non-resident Vice-President for the Class, in addition to the Vice- 
President in or near Philadelphia. 



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'87S REUNIONS 

Right on schedule — without any omission — '87 has continued 
its yearly Reunions and its annual Mid-winter Meetings, twenty in 
all, for the ten-year period now being recorded. These meetings 
are for the double purpose of affording definite times and oppor- 
tunities for the members of the Class to meet, for both pleasure and 
business sake. They have been eminently successful. From twenty- 
five to sixty-five men have regularly attended. The personal and 
social side has been most pleasant and the business duly covered, in 
the various matters of class or college activities, administration of 
funds, reports of special committees, tribute to deceased members, etc. 

The regular "Yearly Reunion" is always held at the University 
of Pennsylvania (though often preceded by some special and addi- 
tional outing) in Commencement Week in June, while the inter- 
vening meeting, termed the "Mid-winter Reunion," is held at some 
point of convenient access, in or near Philadelphia, usually in Jan- 
uary. The minutes of these meetings and accompanying papers are 
duly preserved by the Class Secretary and now form a growing 
aggregate of pronounced interest, that can but be of the highest 
value to future '87's, in succeeding centuries, treading in our foot- 
steps. 

Referring those desirous of minutiae, to the minutes, the fol- 
lowing is a brief notation of such meetings: 

26th Mid-winter: January 25th, 1913. At the Union League, Philadelphia, 
as the guests of eight members. Fifty men present. Committee of 
three appointed to represent the Class in conference with the Uni- 
versity Trustees in the application of income from the Memorial 
Fund. 

26th Annual: June 18th, 1913. U. of P. Forty-one men present. Pre- 
ceded by automobile trip to Manheim, a swim, luncheon, etc. and 
including afternoon sports, and Ashbrook's oceanbound telegram, 
"Vive quatrevingtsept" 

27th Mid-winter: January 10th, 1914. At Bookbinder's, Philadelphia. 
Forty-eight men present. Frazier gave an extended communication 
upon the subject of a Pennsylvania Varsity Club. Class cup or- 
dered to custody of Historian for ad interim safe keeping. 

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27th Annual: June 6th, 1914. U. of P. Forty men present. Parade, sports 
and Cornell ball game. Preceded by all-day siesta at State in 
Schuylkill, as the guests of classmate Wright. Ashbrook's engage- 
ment disclosed and a silver pipe of peace tobacco box ordered to be 
presented him. The expected registration of Batchelor's daughter 
in the University for graduate work in English, recorded as making 
her the first " '87 girl" and class daughter to follow in the Class 
footsteps. 

28th Mid-winter: January 8th, 191 5. At the "Anchorage," the up river club 
house of the Philadelphia Barge Club. Forty-eight men present. 

28th Annual: June 12th, 1915. U. of P. Thirty-four men present. Ren- 
desvouz at the Rittenhouse ; march with band to Franklin Field ; 
participation in sports; Harvard game, etc. 

29th Mid-winter: January 29th, 1916. Poor Richard Club, Philadelphia, 
through courtesy of Bloomingdale. Forty-one men present. Com- 
mittee appointed to report on matter of proposed removal of the 
original Provost's house to suitable spot on the University grounds. 
Application approved, of the Memorial Fund income towards the 
maintenance of a disabled University professor. 

29th Annual. June 17th, 1916. U. of P. Twenty-five men present. The 
"help fund" referred to on page 23 was effected — and the pleasant 
word received of Ashhurst's appointment as Librarian of the entire 
Philadelphia Free Library metropolitan district system. 

30th Mid-winter: February 2nd, 1917. Bookbinder's. Twenty-nine men 
present. "Shore dinner." Appointment of special committee to ar- 
range suitable program for the 30th annual reunion. 

30th Annual: June 16th, 1917. U. of P. Sixty-five men present. Again 
at the State in Schuylkill, the day preceding, thro' courtesy of W. T. 
Wright. Lunch at Houston Hall for members, wives and families. 
Many entertainment and sports events. 

31st Mid-winter: February 9th, 1918. Bookbinder's. Thirty-six men pres- 
ent. Chicken and waffle dinner. 

31st Annual: June 15th, 1918. U. of P. Thirty-three men present. Sports 
and ball game, Pennsylvania vs. Camp Dix. Houston presented a 
service flag to the Class. Secretary instructed to send a class letter 
to the four members then overseas or in war work: Ralston, Gum- 
mey, Fetterolf and Milliken. Trinity College, Hartford, confers 
degree on George W. Pepper. 

32nd Mid-winter: February 2nd, 1919. At the Roosevelt. Thirty-five men 
present. Committee appointed to arrange for suitable memorial 
for the three sons of Class members who had fallen in the Great 
War: Sergeant Thomas R. Reath, Jr., Lieutenant Henry Howard 
Houston and Ensign Benjamin Lee. A number of letters read from 
Stradling from overseas and from others in uniform and war work. 

32nd Annual: June 14th, 1919. U. of P. Thirty-one men present. Cornell 
ball game; sports, etc. 

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33rd Mid-winter: Again at the "Anchorage." Stone gave a travelogue 
talk with slides, showing his camping experiences of the summer, 
in the Arizona foothills. 

33rd Annual: June 12th, 1920. U. of P. Thirty-eight men present. Ren- 
desvouz, sports, California University ball game, etc. 

34th Mid-winter: January 8th, 1921. At the "Lilacs," the up river club 
house of the University Barge Club. Thirty-eight men present. 
Russell reported as to tablet for the sons of members killed in the 
Great War. Office of Second Vice-President established. 

34th Annual: June nth, 1921. U. of P. Thirty-seven men present. Usual 
parade, sports, and Dartmouth ball game. The pleasant word re- 
ceived of the promotion of Stradling by appointment as head of 
the great North East High School of Philadelphia, and of Frankel's 
appointment as head of the U. S. Postal Service Welfare Depart- 
ment. 

35th Mid-winter: January 7th, 1922. Corinthian Yacht Club, Essington, 
thro' the courtesy of J. G. N. Whitaker. Thirty-five men present. 
The "help fund" referred to on page 23 there effected. 

35th Annual: June 10th, 1922. U. of P. About to be held, and this volume 
then to be distributed. 



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STATISTICS 

Of the one hundred and eighteen present living members of 
the Class of '87, it would perhaps be of at least academic interest 
to be able to herein state, the number married, never married, un- 
married and remarried ; together with various columns of the num- 
ber of children, of twins, of step sons, and any other such impedi- 
menta. But as a distinct percentage of the otherwise-of-course-to- 
be-admired-but-in-this-respect-not Class has not made any return 
at all, it is obviously impossible to give any such figures excepting 
as suppositious, or with any sufficient nearness to the truth, to be 
worth while. While the absence of such puts the Acting Historian 
in perhaps an invidious comparison with the Historian of the pre- 
ceding Histories, in which despite a similar percentage of non-returns, 
certain figures are glibly and flatly given, the only comment that 
the present writer will make on that is, that that increases his ad- 
miration for his predecessor, and bears out this statement that he 
is the most competent man in the Class for such work! 

However for the edification of those who are statistically in- 
clined and are unhappy unless having figures to point to and to argue 
over, those that have been received are herewith given. 

Since the last History — 19 12 — nine of our members, supposedly 
dyed in the wool, rock-bound, spiked to the mast bachelors, have 
fooled us, surrendered, and gone and done it; i. e. married. Thir- 
teen more children have been added to the Class; but the Acting 
Historian hastens to say, that such increment of fructification is 
chargeable to the members at large, and while inclusive of, is not 
alone by the nine referred to. The grandfather condition is grow- 
ing acutely with the lines of an inverted pyramid, — should such be 
plotted a la a. baking powder chart — and verily suggests the effects 
of that domestic substance — as the sons and daughters of the mem- 
bers of the Class are getting into their strides, and beginning to decor- 
ate their successor family wigwams. Twice has the "stop-press" 
function been called upon, to record an addition, by some bland and 
hypocritical grandfather, who says that of course it is not material, 
but in order that statistics and the due record, etc., etc., may be 



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made, "is it too late to get in?"! The present number of such 
outcrop, is fifty; and the Acting Historian opines that when 
the 1937 history is written, an adding machine will be needed. 
The individual record as yet, is easily held by Houston, with eight 
but that member who is always breaking records, George W. Pepper, 
shies his hat into the ten year ring with an entry of five; and is 
straightway met by Somers Smith with an equal entry (He is one 
of the two stop press chaps above mentioned) and who, the last thing 
before these lines were written was pointing out that his five really 
constituted a better record than Pepper's because of a variety of 
reasons that he was detailing at length and trying to make the writer 
accept. 

In occupations — and taking all the returns and assuming that 
those who have made no return, are still occupied as at last accounts — 
the one hundred and eighteen divide as follows: 

The largest specific group is medical, 8 ; of lawyers, there are 7 ; 
architects, 5 ; insurance men, 4 ; accountants, 4 ; in the ministry, 4 ; 
specializing in educational and sociological work, 3 ; in real estate, 2 ; 
in textile manufacturing, 2; in dentistry, 1. There are 7 civil en- 
gineers ; 4 electrical ; 3 mechanical ; 1 gas ; 2 mining, 6 metallurgical ; 

1 water distillation and 1 bridge or structural. One member is en- 
gaged in shipbuilding; 3 in steel manufacture; 2 in chemistry; 2 
in banking; 2 in the sale of bonds and stocks; 2 as professors and 2 
as contractors. There are 2 in railroading ; 3 in manufacturing ; and 

2 are artists. In advertising there is 1 ; in coal production 1 ; in 
journalism 1 ; in antiques 1 ; in carpentry 1 ; as educational head 1 ; 
as librarian 1 ; in warehousing 1 ; in wholesale drugs 1. Fourteen 
are in various commercial lines not briefly described and nine either 
never were in active business, or have retired from such. 

In response to an inquiry made to ascertain the extent to which 
the members of '87 are turning their children towards their Alma 
Mater ; 

Out of thirty-four sons reported upon, twenty-one either have 
been thro', are in, or are expecting to enter, the University of Penn- 
sylvania. Three are Yale; six are Penn State .College ; and Prince- 
ton, Columbia, Georgia Technology and Trinity, have one each. 

Of eleven daughters reported upon, Bryn Mawr leads with four, 
Wilson has three, the University of Pennsylvania two, and Welles- 
ley and Groucher, one each. 

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To the Sons, who gave their lives in the 
Great War, of Members of the Class. 



Fixed, December, 1920. 



'87 IN THE GREAT WAR 

The period of time covered by this present Class History, spans 
the period of the Great War. That when such a call came, '87 
would be other than in the van of patriotism, duty, response, ac- 
tivity and sacrifice as might be needed, scarcely needs the saying. 

While it would be a great gratification as well as a privilege 
to herein record the splendid showing by '87's men, wives, sons and 
daughters, the Acting Historian is not able to do it. It is a story 
in itself, that will require a book far larger than this, to properly 
record all that can be collected as to such. And it would be w 7 ell 
if such can be collected and permanently recorded in full, as a writ- 
ten monument for future classes and for the descendents of the mem- 
bers of the class. But for this book, it is impossible, for since its 
determination, the time has been entirely too short for any such 
comprehensive task. Yet even so, no history or bulletin as of this 
date, of the Class, would be even permissible without a reference to 
this subject. To that end the Acting Historian makes the following 
notes as to what was done by our members, leaving to a hoped for 
special and perhaps volunteering Historian, the real and full compil- 
ation of '87's War record. 

In even any such surface reference as is alone here possible, 
first in thought, first in honor — surpassing in eternal record even 
any glories of their fathers, because they forsooth are still here — come 
those three sons of men of '87 who gave their all. While the tablet 
of bronze that the Class has affixed in their memory, on the walls of 
'87's House at the University of Pennsylvania, will endure for long, 
as do stone walls and metal, yet short is that to the forever keeping 
of their names in the minds of the Class, of its sons, and of its sons of 
sons, as on the perpetual rolls and unending annals of the honor of 
the Class. The worded tribute to those three, is shown in the plate 
accompanying. 

Of '87's men — those fathers, whose splendid record shines, — 
first come to mind some of those the more conspicuous, who were 
over seas, and of whom some notes appear in the "Biographical 
Continuations" that herein follow. Yet almost equally in mind 
come the many who while not across, yet on this side in many cases 



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did equally vital things in the common cause. Of both of these, this 
is but the merest alphabetical reminder: 

Ashhurst headed the "Books for Soldiers" work, in Philadelphia; 
Bernheimer was active in drives and work in Brooklyn ; Bloomingdale 
wrote Liberty Loan "ads" ; Carpenter was a member of the Advisory 
Draft Board ; Coates worked with the Canadian Explosives Com- 
pany ; Cowperthwait was in Liberty Loan drives ; Cresson was with 
the Remington Arms people at Eddystone; Fetterolf was a Major 
in the Medical Corps, at Camps Sevier and Hancock; Frankel did a 
variety of work in New York city ; Frazier served on various Liberty 
Loan Committees; Harris was a member of a Committee for care 
and relief of families of soldiers; Huckel made many addresses in 
Red Cross drives and to departing troops, etc. ; Kenney steamed up in 
steel production rush work; Houston served on various committees in 
the Philadelphia district; Levin was a member of the Advisory Legal 
Board, Philadelphia; Lowry was in Red Cross and Liberty Loan 
work; McLean was attached to the Philadelphia Quartermaster's 
Terminal ; Milliken had charge of the American end of the Military 
Railways; Montgomery was in charge of Episcopal Church work 
at Camp Meade, etc. ; Page was in Russia and in Pittsburg, as Su- 
pervising Inspector of war material ; D. Pepper was Power Engineer 
with the Electric Storage Battery Co. on War Contracts; G. W. 
Pepper went to Plattsburg two seasons and held the conspicuous 
position of the Chairmanship of the Pennsylvania Council of National 
Defence ; Peterson did rush work in California on Standard Oil con- 
tracts; Ralston was Adjutant in the 42nd Division and was awarded 
the distinguished service medal ; Rowland was on the Federal Board 
of Vocational Education of the Disabled; Poultney Smith did all 
manner of work with Cramp's; Snyder was War Correspondent 
abroad ; Stackhouse was chairman of the Cambria County Council 
of Defense; Stone talked to the boys at the Cape May naval base; 
Stradling helped to establish aviation recruiting bases; and in France 
was in the army Educational Corps; Wagner was in Red Cross 
and Soldier's entertainment work; and J. G. N. Whitaker was a 
Lieut. Commander on Patrol duty in the Navy. 

And the wives of '87 : 

Who of us in the early days of the participation of the United 
States in the War, did not get a new emotion and a new note of 
admiration, as we saw women's parades stretching the old Quaker 



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city from end to end with limousineless society leader, church women, 
factory workers and Salvation Army lassies, marching side by side, 
eagerly, loyally, grimly, reverently following the flag and the martial 
strains. Of '87 's wives who were there to be found, and in War 
work, were Mrs. Gummey, in Emergency Aid and Red Cross 
Work at the port of Embarkation; Mrs. Harris, as Secretary of the 
Philadelphia Branch for National Women's Service; Mrs. Houston 
provided a dormitory for soldier boys in Philadelphia at the time of 
the Armistice; Mrs. Huckel, in Red Cross and Child Welfare work; 
Mrs. McLean in Red Cross and Canteen work; Mrs. Snyder who 
worked as a volunteer nurse at various points in France, and Mrs. 
Somers Smith and Mrs. Shelton, and many, many others, whose 
names are not before the Acting Historian, who worked long hours, 
assiduously and faithfully, in Canteen, Red Cross, Emergency Aid, 
and any quantity of other forms of local and home work. All honor 
to '87 's wives. 

And the sons: 

Strapping, husky, worthy sons; upholding the faith and the 
purpose of America. Finest chips of the old blocks ; from the young- 
sters like Whittaker's boy, who chafed until he was sixteen and 
then could work in a shell factory, to the three of whom the tablet 
now eloquently tells. This is but part of the record: 

Allen's two boys were in active service in the Home Reserves; 
Philip Amram was a 2nd Lieutenant; A. Mercer Biddle, Jr., was 
in the Motor Transport service; Harry Brown, Jr., saw service as 
a 2nd Lieutenant in France ; Murray Earle was in the Aviation 
section ; Frankel's boy was in the Student's Army Training Corps ; 
Frazier's son was in the Aviation service and over seas; both 
Graham's boys were over seas in service; Houston's boy, Henry 
Howard 2nd, lies buried in France, his stepson, Charles Caldwell 
Brown had an extended record with the Grand Fleet and three 
sons-in-law were in uniform in various capacities; Huckel's two boys 
were in Junior officers training camps and boy scout work; Krecker's 
son enlisted in the navy, at Cape May; Latta's son was in the 
311th M. T. C. for 14 months; Benjamin Lee gave his life, as 
'87's tablet recites; George S. K. Maison was in navy base Hospital 
No. 5 — Brest; his brother, Robert S. Jr., was in the Citizens' Vol- 
unteer Corps at Chester; William Martinez was active, but his 
record promised has not been yet received ; Sam Milliken was in 



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the navy off France, in active service and cited; Moffly's son was 
a first lieutenant in the 310th Field Artillery; W. B. Page, Jr., was 
in English waters in the Marine Corps; G. W. Pepper, Jr., held 
half a dozen posts, including a 1st lieutenancy in the 47th C. A. C. 
overseas; Ralston 's son was a second lieutenant of Engineers in the 
A. E. F. ; Reath's second boy never came back from Bois de Bel- 
leau, as the tablet records; his oldest son was in various war ac- 
tivities as well as his third son was in the Marines; Siddall's son 
was a corporal in the nth U. S. Cavalry; Somers Smith's son 
saw active service on the other side and was in the army of occu- 
pation on the Rhine; Powell Stackhouse was in the Students' 
Training Camp at the U. of P. ; H. L. Brown's son saw service 
abroad as a second lieutenant in the A. E. F. ; W. T. Wright's son 
joined the Naval Reserve and was with the Atlantic Fleet. Whit- 
taker's son was an expert radio operator and instructor and his 
youngster helped make shells in a factory at Atlanta. 

And the daughters of '87: 

Equally worthy chips of the maternal blocks! 

Both Benkert's daughters were in Red Cross; Eleanor Brock 
was for one year in the Adjutant General's office at Washington ; 
Alice Earle was in the Army Nursing Corps at Camp Jackson; 
Margaret and Virginia Earle were both in the National League 
for Women's Work; Anna Hall served as a yeoman L. D. S., Third 
Naval District Dispensary Office; Houston's stepdaughter, Charlotte 
H. Brown, was in the Emergency Aid, and did active nursing as well ; 
Elizabeth Latta sang at camps ; Elizabeth Maison was in the Hospital 
Base No. 5 at Brest; Moffly's daughter was in Red Cross work; 
Reath's daughter in Motor Messenger Service; Helen Shelton did a 
lot of the same for an extended period ; Adelaide Spencer served in 
the Postoffice Department during the War; and probably several 
times the number of the above, of whom the Acting Historian has 
not any record, did the same, in similar war activities. 

Verily can the world say to '87 — men, wives, sons, daughters — 
"Well done!" 



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87'S HELPS 

When the Acting Historian came to caption this page, the 
word "benefactions" came to mind; and was discarded as entirely 
too pretentious. Then the words, "financial aid" ; to be likewise 
discarded as too blunt or realistic. Then came the word "helps" ; 
which straightway was taken. For that is the simple, old-fash- 
ioned term, that best expresses in an unassuming way some things 
that the Class has done and in which it takes an honest satisfaction, 
as something done to the good ; and as a mark for other classes to 
emulate and we care not how much to surpass! 

'87's practical cooperation in a money way, with the University, 
in various ways, is compactly shown in the following memoranda: 
1887 When graduating; a gift of books to the library amount- 
ing to $252.60 

1897 Tenth Reunion: Dormitory '87 House. The Class con- 
tributed $10,000 and when the price was raised, one class- 
mate added $10,000 to make up the required amount 20,000.00 

1902 Fifteenth Reunion: For gymnasium and entrance gates to 

Franklin Field 5,000.00 

1912 Twenty-fifth Reunion: "Memorial Fund" in memory of 

deceased members of the Class 6,000.00 

1917 Thirtieth Reunion: Added to the Memorial Fund 1,500.00 

1920 Placed tablet on '87 House in memory of Sons of Members 
of the Class, killed in the Great War and added to Me- 
morial Fund 10,000,000 



$42,752.60 
The Memorial Fund is an endowment fund, the income being 
used for such purposes as a Class committee and the University 
Trustees, may jointly determine as desirable. The amount is now 
$17,500 and the income from it for several years has been unani- 
mously agreed upon as to be devoted to the maintenance of one 
of the professors of the University, completely disabled and without 
resources. Can better use be? 

And there are other '87 helps. From time to time, the Grim 
Reaper appears ; a member is taken ; and sometimes a wife without 
means is left and with children in the midst of an uncompleted edu- 
cational course, that had been sacrificingly and hard worked for, 
and with the prospect of it all being ended and hopes dashed, for 
lack of means to finish. About such a time, our own Thomas L. — 
in most respects sound, but ever in peril of rib fracture from car- 



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diac expansion — beckons and says "Boys; so and so is up against it; 
put your names down for what you'll give." Appeals for this and 
appeals for that, on other lines, sometimes require explanations or 
urgings, but when this kind turns up, the only simile that comes to 
mind to the Acting Historian to adequately express the celerity with 
which Thomas L. gets the little paper signed, is Mark Twain's 
famous characterization of a coyote, as an animal that runs so fast 
that it leaves a crack in the atmosphere! 

More than once has '87 been happy in the privilege of helping 
in this way ; and when before long, a letter like the following comes, 
in behalf of a classmate's daughter, whose happiness has been kept 
intact, whose education has been assured, who then dares question 
the worthwhileness of keeping up class associations and kinships? 
"My dear Mr. Cowperthwait: 

How can my daughter , and I, thank you and the men 

of '87 for the generous gift that has reached us? It is not possible 
to put the gratitude and relief in words. You would realize the 
gratitude if you could realize the sense of burden lifted. I can 
imagine nothing more wonderful being done for anyone, and not the 
least value of the gift lies in the thought that it is the outward 
expression of affection and comradeship for one of your class- 
mates, and that means much to us all. 

I would like you to know that is really a fine girl and 

a good and earnest student. Although just ending her Sophomore 
year, she has done part of her Junior work and feels that she can 
graduate next June. That she will justify your goodness, I am 
certain. ... So will you please give to '87, our most heartfelt 
thanks for her future which you have made possible. 
Very cordially yours, etc." 
In January last, a substantial amount was contributed for a pre- 
cisely similar instance; to enable the two daughters of a deceased 
member, to continue college courses, that would otherwise have been 
most abruptly ended. 

The above mentioned matters do not include numerous indi- 
vidual contributions to the University by class members, thro' Alumni 
and other funds nor helps extended some individual class members, 
both of which amount to quite considerable sums. 

The Class wants to add further amounts to the '"87 Memorial 
Fund" particularly and invites contributions from members, and 
any contributions to the University by members can be designated 
as for this fund, — and will be, — if so requested at the time. 
In truth is '87 happy in its helps. 

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COMPLETE ROSTER OF THE CLASS OF '87 

University of Pennsylvania. 

With mailing addresses as of April 1922; and including named of 
deceased members and dates of deaths. 

ADAMS, HENRY CLAY, 30 May, 1889. 
Allen, John, 123 S. 4th Street, Phila., Pa. 
ALLEN, WILLIAM, 18 February, 1915. 
Altemus, Franklin Lee, 4232 Pine Street, Phila., Pa. 
Amet, Louis Eugene. 

Amram, David Werner, 1610 Real Estate Trust Bldg., Phila., Pa. 
ANDERSON, FORREST MURREL, 4 January, 1891. 
Ashbrook, William Sinclair, 401 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa. 
Ashhurst, John, Free Library of Phila., Phila., Pa. 
AUDENREID, WM. FRANCIS, 28 July, 1903. 
Bailey, Lewis Ellsworth, 210 9th Street, Philipsburg, Pa. 
Ball, Henry Price, 295 Parkside Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Barr, Samuel Dickson, care of J. B. Rucker, Lansdowne, Pa. 
Batchelor, Edward Charles, 105 Chestnut Ave., Narberth, Pa. 
Bates, Heston, 1300 Land Title Bldg., Phila., Pa. 
BAUGH, CHAUNCEY RALSTON, 31 March, 1893. 
Benkert, William Caspar, 812 Morris Building, Phila., Pa. 
Bernheimer, Dr. Charles Seligman, 262 Broadway, New York City. 
Biddle, Alexander Mercer, Torresdale, Pa. 
Bloomingdale, Charles, Jr., 1420 Chestnut Street, Phila., Pa. 
BOYER, WALTER NADAL, 16 October, 19 12. 
BRINTON, GEORGE, 24 January, 1890. 
Brock, Joseph Spencer, Rydal, Pa. 
BROOKE, HUGH JONES, 24 February, 1900. 
Brown, Clarence King, 229 Holland St., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Brown, Edgar French, 617 City Bank Building, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Brown, Henry Longstreth, 744 S. New Hampshire Ave., Los An- 
geles, Cal. 
Bruner, Francis Asbury, 201 5 E. Boston Ave., Phila., Pa. 
BRUNNER, CHARLES THOMAS PARRY, 26 May, 1913. 
Byrne, Daniel Edwin. 
CAROTHERS, FRANK HERRON, 1890. 



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Carpenter, Dr. Herbert Bancroft, 1805 Spruce St., Phila., Pa. 
Clarke, Frederick Colton, 19 Waverly Place, Schenectady, N. Y. 
CLAY, HARRY GIBBS, JR., 24 April, 1919. 
Clifford, Charles Condit, 131 7th Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
CLINE, ALBERT ROWLAND, 19 October, 1921. 
Coates, Crawford, 547 Toronto Street, Victoria, B. C. 
COLLADAY, THEODORE FRANCIS, 19 March, 1908. 
Cookman, William Holmes, 420 W. Price St., Germantown, Phila., 

Pa. 
Cowperthwait, Charles Tyler, 212 S. 4th Street, Phila., Pa. 
CRANE, JAMES BURNET, 10 August, 1893. 
Cresson, Warder, 37 Amherst Ave., Swarthmore, Pa. 
Culin, Frank Hughes, 2128 N. 15th Street, Phila., Pa. 
Dolan, Clarence William, Rosemont, Pa. 
DROWN, THOMAS DARLING, 13 July, 1890. 
Dunn, Edwards Sanford, 41 E. Chestnut Avenue, Chestnut Hill., 

Phila., Pa. 
Earle, Edgar Pardee, 8210 Crittenden St., Chestnut Hill., Phila., Pa. 
Elverson, Joseph Sketchley, Catasauqua, Pa. 
ENGLE, LOUDEN, 27 August, 1894. 
EYSTER, JOSEPH ALLISON, JR., July, 1912. 
FARNUM, PAUL, 30 May, 1910. 

FARQUHAR, THOMAS HARRISON, 6 December, 1891. 
Fetterolf, Dr. George, 2010 Srpuce Street, Phila., Pa. 
Forbes, John Sims, 922 Wynnewood Road, Overbrook, Pa. 
Frankel, Lee Kaufer, Ph.D., 1 Madison Ave., New York City. 
Frazier, George Harrison, 125 S. Oriana St., Phila., Pa. 
GARRETT, CLARENDON HARRIS, 23 October, 1894. 
Graham, Frederick William Wilson, 52 Summit St., Chestnut Hill, 

Phila., Pa. 
Green, Francis Edmund, 1934 Spruce St., Phila., Pa. 
GRIFFITH, SILAS GODFREY, 10 October, 1918. 
GRISCOM, CLEMENT ACTON, JR., 30 December, 1918. 
Gummey, Dr. Frank Bird, 5418 Greene St., Germantown, Phila., Pa. 
Hahman, William, P. O. Box 3, Altoona, Pa. 
HALL, DOUGLAS MORGAN, 9 March, 1912. 
Hall, Emlen Trenchard, 138 Franklin Place, Flushing, L. I., N. Y. 
HANCOCK, GEORGE BACON, 22 June, 19 10. 
Harrington, Walter Eugene. 

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Harris, John McArthur, 1063 Drexel Building, Phila., Pa. 
Hawkins, John Dawson, Mining Exchange Bldg., Colorado Springs, 

Col. 
HAWORTH, JAMES, 4 April, 1918. 
Hening, Crawford Dawes, Lancaster, N. H. 
Hill, William Warner, 3601 Baring Street, Phila., Pa. 
Houston, Samuel Frederic, 509 Real Estate Trust Bldg., Phila., Pa. 
HOVEY, JOHN JULIUS, 25 May, 191 1. 
Huckel, Rev. Oliver, 24 Maple Ave., Greenwich, Conn. 
Jones, Dr. William Lockhart, 163 1 Oxford St., Phila., Pa. 
Keeley, Frank James, Merion, Pa. 

Kenney, Edward Fulbister, 1601 Widener Building, Phila., Pa. 
Ketchum, George Slocum. 

Kolb, Louis John, 10th and Reed Sts., Phila., Pa. 
Krecker, John Philip, 1723 Erie Avenue, Phila., Pa. 
Kuelling, Theophilus, 315 Colvin Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Latta, Thomas Love, 19 17 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 
Lee, Charles Robert. 

LEE, LEIGHTON, 8 November, 1898. 
Levin, Joseph Siegmund, 12 17 N. Franklin St., Phila., Pa. 
Lewifl, Julius Louis. 
Lincoln, Dr. Walter Rodman, Cocoa, Fla. 
Lowry, Walter Biddle, 191 Marion Ave., Pasadena, Cal. 
LYNCH, JOHN, 31 January, 1885. 
LYSTER, NELSON O., 16 March, 1911. 
McLean, William, 1209 Harrison Building, Phila., Pa. 
MACLEAN, HEW BRYDON, 1 December, 1903. 
Magee, Christopher, Jr., 1101 Berger Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Magee, James Francis, Jr., Hamilton Court, 39th and Chestnut Sts., 

Phila., Pa. 
Magilton, Albert Lee, 722 Arch Street, Phila., Pa. 
Maison, Dr. Robert Stephen, 521 W. 7th St., Chester, Pa. 
Martin, George Leidlie, 5425 Chester Ave., Phila., Pa. 
Martin, William Paul, 101 Bellevue Place, Chicago, 111. 
Martinez, Dion Maria, 3 Oak Park, Lansdale, Pa. 
MILLER, EDWARD ALDEN, 31 July, 1893. 
Milliken, James, Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, 7th and Bedford 

Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Moffly, William Tennent, 624 Allen Lane, Mt. Airy P.O., Phila., Pa. 

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Montgomery, Rev. James Alan, Ph.D., 6806 Greene St., German- 
town, Phila., Pa. 

MURPHY, HYLAND CLARKE, 24 July, 1907. 

Newbold, William Romaine, Ph.D., 212 St. Mark's Square, Phila., 
Pa. 

Newlin, Levis Passmore, 1036 Wyoming St., Allentown, Pa. 

Page, William Byrd, 11324 Forrestville Ave., Chicago, 111. 

Parke, John Grubb, Jr., 16 Schoonmaker Ave., Monessen, Pa. 

Pepper, David, 816 Commonwealth Building, Phila., Pa. 

Pepper, George Wharton, 2231 Land Title Building, Phila., Pa. 

Peterson, Robert Evans, 3rd, 1328 15th St., Santa Monica, Cal. 

Pratt, William Burton, care of Dr. J. Lynn Pratt, Milford, Del. 

PREVOST, WASHINGTON MALLET, 13 May, 1895. 

PRINCE, LEONARD MORTON, 1 November, 1895. 

Pryor, Francis John, 447 S. 51st St., Phila., Pa. 

RALSTON, LT. COL. FRANCIS WILLIAM, U. S. A., 8 Oc- 
tober, 1920. 

Randolph, Philip Syng Physic, Lakewood, N. J. 

Reath, Theodore Wood, 1201 Commercial Trust Bldg., Phila., Pa. 

Redifer, Andrew Perry, 139 Race St., Phila., Pa. 

REMONT, FRANK REMI, 3 April, 1922. 

Richards, Howard Smith, 411 Gowen Ave., Mt. Airy P. O., Phila., 
Pa. 

Riddle, Robert Neales, 5334 Greene St., Germantown, Phila., Pa. 

Rowland, Arthur John, Milwaukee Elec. R. & L. Co., Milwaukee, 
Wis. 

RUSSELL, ALEXANDER WILSON, JR., 8 August, 1918. 

Russell, Randolph Potter, University Club, 15 10 Walnut St., Phila., 
Pa. 

SALTER, ROBERT BOWEN, JR., 15 March, 1895. 

Salter, Dr. William Homes, 109 Manhattan Building, Duluth, 
Minn. 

SEAL, LEWIS WILLIAM, 26 March, 1884. 

Seguin, Andre William, P. O. Box 216, New Orleans, La. 

SEYFERT, HENRY HUNTER, 21 June, 1907. 

Sheafer, Francis Wenrich, 908 Spruce St., Phila., Pa. 

SHEBLE, FRANKLIN, 20 April, 1899. 

Shelton, Frederick Hart, 228 S. 21st St., Phila., Pa. 

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Sholl, Albert Edward, care M. H. Fitzsimmons, 131 W. Kings- 
bridge Road, New York City. 

Siddall, James Reeves, Room 676 Broad St. Station, Phila., Pa. 

Siebott, Rev. Henry Daniel Emanuel, 2502 N. 27th St. Phila., Pa. 

SMALTZ, HENRY NAGLEE, 9 August, 1914. 

SMITH, ALFRED HENRY, 24 April, 1896. 

Smith, James Somers, 212 S. 4th Street, Phila., Pa. 

Smith, William Poultney, The Wm. Cramp & Sons Co., Phila., Pa. 

Snyder, Milton Balentine, The Herald, New York City. 

Spencer, Theodore Nelson, 906 S. 48th St., Phila., Pa. 

Stackhouse, Daniel Morrell, Johnstown, Pa. 

Stearns, George Robinson 67 11 Frankford Ave., Phila., Pa. 

STEVER, HORACE AMBROSE, 5 December, 1890. 

Stone, Witmer, Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila., Pa. 

Stradling, George Flowers, 5120 Newhall St., Phila., Pa. 

Supplee, John Henry, Collingswood, N. J. 

Thomas, John William, Littlestown, Pa. 

THURLOW, JAMES ABBOTT, 14 April, 1910. 

TOWNSEND, CHARLES COOPER, 4 October, 1914. 

TRIMBLE, ALBERT HOWARD, 8 November, 191 1. 

Trimble, Francis Wilson, Pennsylvania Building, Phila., Pa. 

TUCKER, MILES, 20 July, 1904. 

Wagner, Joseph Christian, 1539 N. 12th Street, Phila., Pa. 

WEAVER, JOHN WALLACE, 2 June, 1908. 

Weems, Dr. Marcus Aurelius, Columbia, Tex. 

Welsh, Edward Lowber, 304 Walnut St., Phila., Pa. 

Welsh, Walter, Birmingham, Ala. 

Whitaker, Jacob Garabrant Neafie, 2102 N. Broad St., Phila., Pa. 

White, Louis Piers, 105 S. nth St., Phila., Pa. 

Whittaker, Alan Dean, 221 E. 10th Street, Atlanta, Ga. 

Wilson, Dr. Richard, Apartado 629, Habana, Cuba. 

Wood, James Longacre, 904 Lindenwold Ave., Ambler, Pa. 

Wright, William Stetler, 232 Livingstone Ave., New Brunswick, 
N.J. 

Wright, William Townsend, St. Davids, Pa. 

YOUNG, NORTON BUEL, 30 March, 1900. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL CONTINUATIONS; 1912—1922 

Living Members; Class of '87 



For names and dates of deaths of deceased members, see pages 
25 to 29. For biographical sketches of same, see previous Class 
Histories. 



JOHN ALLEN 

Some men are first from personal beauty, some from avoirdupois. 
Some from quality of brain cells, some from a Randolph Russell 
uniqueness of humor. Allen, in selecting his parents, evidently dis- 
carded all such ordinary attributes, discreetly choosing to be first in 
an alphabetical way, thus assuring forever a premiership that not 
only could not be taken away, but also carries a minimum of brain 
fag. And so, like Abou ben Adhem, he again leads all the rest in 
the serried phalanx of '87's passing show of 1922. 

Since 19 12, Allen has continued to adhere to Philadelphia and 
to insurance. In the former phase he has added to his Clubs, being 
now a member of the august Union League ; and in the latter, he has 
likely also chosen well, along with his alphabetical position, for what 
better preparation for a future life can there be than an extended 
study of fire hazards in this. In human "extra dividends" Allen 
too, has entered the grandiose and growing order of grandfathers 
as he reports that his son Harold (we quote him literally; and he 
mentions no lady in the case) has had a son, Robert Adkins Allen, 
born October 8, 19 14, and twins — Edward Browning and Jean 
Elizabeth — born April 21, 1920. We can scarce repress the Scrip- 
tural commendation of "Well done, thou good and faithful servant!" 

Both of Allen's sons are married and during the war were in 
the deferred classes of the draft and meanwhile did very active 
service in the Home Defence Reserve, in drilling others and in riot 
duty. 

Allen says that he is too busy for much pleasure and that his 
chief hobby is trying to keep young. The editorial opinion is that 
few in '87 have an easier job in that respect than well balanced, 
quiet-living, getting much-out-of-life John Allen. 



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FRANKLIN LEE ALTEMUS 

Altemus, in this year of our Lord 1922, also reports himself 
as another who continues to lead the quiet life, perhaps intimating 
that some one has to behave and help a decent Class average! Per- 
haps he too, like Allen, exercises the greatest strategy in professing 
to shine in the reflected luminosity of some of the limelight stars of 
the Class, rather than take the hazards that accompany a more spec- 
tacular career. He writes: 

"The lack of any important events during the last ten years of my life 
will, I fear, bring down the very high average of the achievement of '87, 
but the average is boosted so high by the 'Babe Ruths' of literature, poli- 
tics, journalism, finance, etc., etc., of which it boasts, that it can easily carry 
a light hitter and still be right on top — a fact that consoles me somewhat for 
the fact that I have nothing of interest to report." 

Altemus fills in his question sheet mostly with dashes, but un- 
der No. 7 (if married since 1912) he inserts a positive "No." With- 
out knowing whether this is because of hard luck or whether he is 
a confirmed misogynist the amiable editor will congratulate, either 
way; falling back on Lafayette's procedure in such cases, which was 
to say "Happy man" or "Lucky dog" in either case or whatever the 
reason. 

Altemus confesses as to material pleasures that he does house 
and enjoy, that "auction" leads the lot. This we take it is the do- 
mestic or social game and not the sitting in at a vendue wherein 
the canker of the doubt first as to getting a thing, and then as to 
whether one after all, has probably been stuck with it, carries with 
it a mental gamble unsurpassed. 

Good old baseball is Altemus' outdoor pleasure; and we have 
his own word for it that his vices are too small to enumerate and are 
not particularly prominent. He ought to know; yet it raises a ques- 
tion of his capacity for self-appraisement of virtue, as we remember 
that he is a bachelor! 

LOUISE EUGENE AMET 

No reply. 

DAVID WERNER AMRAM 

Would that paper mill products tonnage were greater, Lake Su- 
perior but a bowl of ink and the writers arm, perpetual motion 
sinews of steel that he might sufficiently record the excellence and in- 



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dustry of Amram; than whom, for consistent, able work, and rich 
esteem by those who know him, '87 has no better man. 

To appreciate Amram's fine record and immense amount of 
industry, one must refer to the pages of the Histories of 1907 and 
1912; wherein such is recorded at some length. To that record 
can be added his recognition by the University in 19 13, he being then 
made Professor of Law, which position he has held since, in addition 
to his continuance as referee in bankruptcies, and other law work. 
He has added to his publications, " Pennsylvania Practice," 2 vols., 
and "Pennsylvania Practice; Act of 1915," two editions, as well 
as constant and numerous articles and lectures on legal and upon 
archaeological subjects. 

At the last reunion, Amram produced one of his sons, as a sam- 
ple of his best work; a likable lad and a prospective worthy son of 
his dad, and if the other young Amrams are as likely, Amram has no 
apology to make for his other-than-literary productions. The eldest 
— Philip Werner is a B.A. of the U. of P. College '20, as well as 
a B.S. in Agriculture, at State College '22. David W., Jr., is 
slated as U. of P. '21, and Pennsylvania State '23; while Elinor 
Beulah is preparing for Bryn Mawr. So the 'isms and the 'ologies 
had — along with the potato bugs — better take to the woods, with 
this Amram onslaught impending. 

That the kind of stuff that flows in the Amram veins should 
rise to the surface in troublous times is but axiomatic, so it is no 
surprise to find that the eldest son enlisted — then but 18 — July 
4, 191 8, nor that he soon received a second lieutenant's commission. 
Discharged in due course, young Amram happily has much exper- 
ience, but no scars, to look back to. 

Amram's chief mental pleasure is closely interwoven in his 
life work; the law and archaeology being his delight, with Biblical 
research tucked in for good measure. Out of doors, farming, is 
"it" ; and in that we all hope he may find — and effect — a complete 
restoration of a depleted health condition for some time past. He 
records no vice; and if the editor is to concede — as a pure hypothesis 
— such condition to anyone, he rather thinks he would to the genial, 
finely able and ever philosophic Amram, who says to the Class: 

"I have been well and ill, happy and miserable, at home and abroad. 
I have had all the common experiences of life and through them all, I have 
preserved my feeling for '87 — the symbol of life-long friendship and ever- 
strengthening bonds of affection." 

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WILLIAM SINCLAIR ASHBROOK 

Ashbrook might easily be called the stroke oar of the eight 
oar crew that guides '87's boat; and his place in the affections of the 
Class is so abundantly shown by what has already been printed in 
the previous — and every other — history, that one literally cannot 
add nor say more, or do aught else than offer to say it again. The 
present editor sees no way in which to amplify the tributes to Wil- 
liam Eclair (for the best minds hold that "Sinclair" is erroneous 
and that in view of his sweetness to the Class, the true reading 
should be "Eclair") unless he reprints all that has gone before, as 
to his loyalty, tact, courtesy and painstaking care in Class affairs, and 
moreover, in upper case caps, underscored and in red ink. 

While there has been no change in Ashbrook's pedestal of esteem 
upon which his feet are immovably fastened, verily there has been 
since the last history, in his bachelor status; for word that quite 
eclipsed the startling announcement in 1912, that he was a member 
of the Geographical Society, is outclassed by the word that the 
canny Scot, so to speak, who long fought shy, in 19 14, succumbed. 
Whether he led Mildred Janney to the altar, or Mildred Janney 
led him, is a relative detail that may be left to the forensic acrobats 
of future athenaeums to determine, but the net and dominant 
facts are that such has resulted, humanly speaking, in great mutual 
happiness, and statistically speaking, in: 

Lucy Janney, June 25th, 1915; 
Joseph 2nd, April 4th, 1918; and 
William S. Jr., January 28th, 1922. 

With such delightful issue, as the lawyers would term such, 
the editor would not ordinarily take issue. But he cannot refrain 
from pointing out that the run down and enervated conditon that 
in part debarred the regular and supposed Historian — yclept Ash- 
brook — from taking on this work and as a result of which, the present 
writer is loaded up with it, was remarkably coincident with the 
news on the street that "Ashbrook has just had a baby." 

Since 19 12, the Geographical Society is less lonesome, and the 
exchequer is depleted now, by dues for — on Ashbrook's part — mem- 
bership in addition in: 

The Philadelphia Geographical Society; 
The American Historical Society; 
The Pennsylvania Historical Society; 

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The Numismatic and Antiquarian Society ; 

The Society of the Alumni; 

The Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; 

The University Club; 

The Philobiblon ; 

Le Coin d'Or; and 

The Philadelphia Association of Life Underwriters. 

In business, Ashbrook is still at the old stand, the Provident 
Life & Trust Company, Philadelphia, which we have no doubt he 
assures his wife, he single handed runs, and his ripening experience 
there, he has crystallized into an address, which tho' handicapped 
by a title of seventeen words — "The Dignity and Influence of the 
Successful Agent and Life Insurance as a career for College Men" 
— has been printed and circulated amongst admiring friends, ex- 
changes, free libraries and may be, even in insurance circles. 

Ashbrook has been a member of the General Alumni Society 
of the University, as well as of the Central Committee of the Alumni, 
and he is at present Manager of the College Society of the Alumni. 
He has also given much time to the interests of the Apprentices' 
Free Library of Philadelphia, as a Manager and as the head of the 
Book Committee. His war record was unhappily but the conva- 
lescence from a long illness. His son's and daughter's war record, 
so far is between themselves. Now that he is married, Ashbrook dis- 
creetly reports his chief pleasure as "reading" ; and his physical pleas- 
ure as "walking," — we presume, the floor, in non-daylight saving 
hours. His broad love of mankind he blankets in "Nihil humani est 
alienumf in describing his hobbies and vices. His message to the 
Class reads: 

"It was a sad day for the Historian when the Committee said to him 
'We want a History for the Thirty-fifth Reunion,' and he was compelled to 
reply that his business duties had become so pressing that in fairness to the 
Class, he could not undertake it. There is a prodigious amount of work in 
getting out a History worthy of the Class such as cannot be got in any 
other way, and the more intimately he gets to know the Class at short range, 
the more he appreciates that, in the words of George Pepper's stanza of the 
Class Song, the Class tie is a 'tie which aye grows tighter.' Moreover the 
members of the Class have been generous in their gratitude for the work 
performed by the Historian in their behalf, so that he not infrequently felt 
that their generous gratitude, outran his deserts." 

Ashbrook then goes on to refer to the pinch hitter or Acting 
Historian, and as he makes some ridiculous remarks as to such in- 
dividual being more competent, and the Class the gainer by the 



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change, that individual has declined to print such, on the ground 
that such are inaccurate, irrelevant, improper and extraneous; and 
has tossed them into the waste basket. 



JOHN ASHHURST 

The editor waited with bated breath, the return of Ashhurst's 
information sheet — and aside from any comment as to how long a 
time he had to wait — this was not from apprehension as to wearing 
out any comptometer ; in counting his offspring, or in his outclassing 
Houston in the grandfather class. Not at all. For of all the bache- 
lors in the Class, Ashhurst remains the best, or the worst, or the most 
confirmed apparently; according as one views it. It was from the 
palpitating expectant interest of ascertaining his pleasures and his 
vices. For Ashhurst has a distinct personality; a sphynxlike com- 
bination of the Machiavellian and of the George Arliss, hard to 
fathom, and any confession of the frailties would, from such a 
soul, be of interest beyond the usual and any knowledge of such a 
ones pleasures and joys would but be indeed a standard for which 
others would strive. And after due awaiting, to temperately ex- 
press it, hopes were dashed and the qui vive punctured, for the last 
page was blank! And all the editor is able to report therefore — what- 
ever he suspects — is the humdrum tally of his occupations and his 
associations ! Of the first he has but one ; of the last, some twenty- 
six, and his list at once puts him in the class of Frankel, Frazier, 
Stone and those others who have such beltfuls of names, that all 
the Government need do to raise the wherewithal for the proposed 
soldiers' bonus payments, would be to tax 'em! 

But whatever be at Ashhurst's belt, his one occupation is a 
feather in his cap. Long associated with the late John Thomson, 
as assistant librarian, upon the death of Mr. Thomson, Ashhurst 
was advanced, March 3, 19 16, to fill the vacancy, and has since 
been the Librarian of the Free Library of Philadelphia. When 
one recalls what the directing head of this system of central head- 
quarters and thirty-five branches means; the work, the responsibility 
and the supervision ; the annual circulation, or book turnover, and 
the service performed on such lines in the third largest centre 
in the country, one can better realize the compliment extended in the 
selection of our own Ashhurst. At present he is handicapped by 



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totally insufficient premises, but a new and pretentious library is now 
under construction on the Parkway, Philadelphia, which should in 
the near future, give space and modern equipment second to none. 
Whether "Ashhurst, '87" will be carved over the marble portal re- 
mains to be seen (We make the suggestion!) but whether such detail 
be covered or not, nothing can deny that actuality within: 
Ashhurst 's twenty-six are: 

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; 

American Academy of Political and Social Science ; 

American Library Association; 

American Society for the Extension of University Teaching (mem- 
ber of Board of Directors) ; 

Art Alliance; 

Anthenzeum of Philadelphia; 

Booksellers' Association of Philadelphia; 

City Club of New York; 

Church Historical Society (member of Library Committee) ; 

Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania ; 

Historical Society of Pennsylvania (a Trustee of the Gratz Col- 
lection) ; 

Keystone State Library Association ; 

Le Coin D'Or; 

National Municipal League; 

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; 

Pennsylvania Home Teaching Society and Free Circulating Library 
for the Blind (member of Board of Managers) ; 

Pennsylvania Library Club; 

Phi Beta Kappa ; 

Philadelphia Forum (member of Board of Governors) ; 

Philobiblon Club (Secretary since 1898) ; 

Racquet Club; 

Rittenhouse Club; 

Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition Association; 

Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity; 

Union Benevolent Association (member of Board of Managers) ; 

University Club of Philadelphia (a member Advisory to Library 
Committee). 

Ashhurst has given some especial attention to Shakespeare, 
and in 19 16 he was a member of the General Committee on Shakes- 
peare Tercentenary and Chairman of the Committee on Exhibition. 
During the war Ashhurst was a member of War Finance Committee 
of American Library Association (1917) ; Director of Campaign for 
"Soldiers' Book Fund" for Philadelphia and its vicinity, under aus- 
pices of the War Service Committee of American Library Association 

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(1917); an( i he conducted The Free Library of Philadelphia's 
Campaign for "Books for Soldiers" (1917-1918). 

LEWIS ELLSWORTH BAILEY 

A fine note from Bailey reminds us that all the records are 
not to be found in the metropolises, and that up State is very much 
to be reckoned with. 

After Sophomore year, Bailey returned to his home near Clear- 
field, where he farmed it for nearly thirty years, or until about 
191 7; and in that time likewise earned the Class blue ribbon and 
swept the deck bare of all classes of Rooseveltian commendations by 
— and for — a family of ten children — Count 'em ; ten ; all as largely 
tallied off in previous histories. 

In 191 7 Bailey removed to Philipsburg, Pa., and has since 
been there engaged in construction and carpentry work. One of his 
boys, Ellsworth, Jr., is in Industrial Engineering at Penn State. He 
himself after the physical pleasures of a hard day's work, tapers on 
with a game of solitaire ; unless polishing up his shooting iron for 
a real bit of deer hunting — of which he is more than fond — has 
the first call. 

His chiefest hobby — in which many of the world's shining 
lights have preceded him — is singing in the village choir; and he 
affirms — we suspect in some glee — that his chiefest vice is singing 
off key. His fine philosophy and best wishes are well covered in 
his own words: 

"Thirty-fifth Reunion finds me still going strong. Only a few gray 
hairs over my ears. I still think the best of life is yet ahead. Am holding 
'87's prize family together. Only one desertion; one daughter married. 
Am not yet a grandfather. Have not lost interest in old '87 and hope to 
be at Reunion in June." 

HENRY PRICE BALL 

Ball keeps on in his electrical career; meaning this literally 
and not metaphorically. 

After many years with the General Electric Company and other 
electrical interests, he was, in 19 12, engineer in charge electric heat- 
ing devices The General Electric Company, at Pittsfield ; then fac- 
tory manager, S. Stuvan & Company, Brooklyn, until 191 7; then 

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superintendent, Lagrange & Grosjean M'f'g Company, Woodlawn, 
Long Island, N. Y., until 1920. During these times however, 
Ball has realized that from salaries alone one finds it difficult to 
accumulate filthy lucre, and keeping an eye to windward, he essayed 
a number of real estate deals, which happily turned out well, and 
sufficiently so to make him independent of his work. He therefore 
is now in the frame of mind of the Irishman with a million dollars, 
who purposely left a 5 a. m. call at a hotel office, so that when the 
bell boy would awake him in the morning and tell him to get up, 
he could talk back to him and tell him he didn't have to! 

Ball now has his own office, where as Consulting Engineer 
he can work more freely and more effectively than ever. That 
he is still a main dependence of the patent office, appears from 
his "I have taken out many patents, principally electrical, and 
have acted as expert in many infringement cases." 

As an example of the American of the period, Ball's an- 
swers to questions 16, 17 and 18 would seem a good instance, 
for what is there left, after one's pleasure being "musical shows 
and movies, one's outdoor pleasure, running a Studebaker sedan, 
and one's hobbies being the admixture of office work and music?" 
— all as Ball affirms are his. 

It may be noted that Ball is (a) either a perfect husband 
to his wife, or (b) she is a perfect wife — or both — for as to his 
chief weakness or vice, Ball replies "I asked my wife and she 
says I haven't any." 

SAMUEL DICKSON BARR 

No reply. 

EDWARD CHARLES BATCHELOR 

In 1 9 12, according to the veracious then Historian, Batche- 
lor did not confide as to his life or foibles; but he has quite re- 
covered, thank you, and now confides a whole lot. 

Primarily, he reports that he has been selling bonds, ''Jan- 
uary, 1908, to date." This is fine, for the editor has a lot of 
friends in that line who for long stretches therein, bewailed bit- 
terly, that they weren't selling a thing. That shows what it is 
to be of '87, no doubt. 

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Batchelor is a member of the American Institute of Bank- 
ing; of the Pennsylvania Bankers' Association and the Academy of 
the Fine Arts; where he can take a look in at the other fellows 
ways in finance or in art. His daughter Jean Muriel, graduated 
from Bryn Mawr in 1914. But let "Batch" tell in his own way 
of his pleasures and his vices: 

"Mental: Reading, art exhibits — indoors and in Nature's gallery — 
orchestral music, and occasionally playing the 'cello, for pleasure which I 
fear is strictly personal. 

Physical: To travel a mountain road, follow the path through the 
wood or the wandering course of a brook, roam over upland pasture and 
sunny meadow — in company with my best chum, my wife — for the joy of 
life in the open, the song of the birds, the whispering trees, all the won- 
derful things that grow; to yield to the charm of color and form, of sound 
or of silence in all about us and add to our wealth of treasured memories. 

Hobbies: Too tightly jammed in the tide of traffic to give full rein to 
my hobby, but this is the nag I ride: 

A set of tennis now and then, with great enjoyment but little skill. 

Planning, some day, to follow the beckoning hand of youthful aspira- 
tion into the field of art and letters — if perchance we can hurdle the inter- 
vening hedges and find the key to the entrance gate. 

Vices: For a complete record of vices, the Historian is referred to 
'86 or '88, in comparison with which the minor delinquencies of '87 are 
fragrant and mild as a Sweet Caporel — but if they must be smoked out, 'Ask 
Dad ; he knows.' 

Should the old gentleman rake up any fallen leaves, cover them gently 
with the verbal flowers, sent by request." 

Message : 

"Hale and hearty in spirit, looking forward with a warm welcome for 
as many of the next thirty-five years as may await my cheerful greeting. 

Health fine. Constant exercise as pace-maker for my short friend In- 
come has kept me in vigorous trim. 

Still on the trail of that elusive bird Financial Prosperity with my 
jolly friends Workhard and Smile and a plentiful supply of salt, seeking 
a few feathers to pay our keep at the Inns of Leisure and Study which lie 
farther on in the journey. The road's a bit rough at times, but it winds 
through a land of dreams where hopes bloom high in the hollows and fair 
visions crown the hills. 

Chief ambition to live four square with the world, plow a straight 

furrow in the field of years, sow some seeds of service and, though the 

harvest be late, reap a modest measure of achievement in things worth 
while as a tribute to '87." 



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HESTON BATES 

It will be remembered that Bates settled down into the business 
of accounting, and in the History of 1907, was recorded as of the 
firm of Stockton, Bates & Son, Philadelphia. Time brings changes, 
and it is now but Bates alone, whose name appears on the door, as 
public accountant and auditor, we hope to greet the vision of many 
a client. 

Bates lives out Mt. Airy way, in Philadelphia and is much in- 
terested in the North Hills Country Club at Edge Hill, which he 
joined in 19 16; and of which he has been — as an accountant — a finan- 
cial secretary no doubt who makes no mistakes, for the Club ever 
since 191 7. He has also, from 19 18 been a member of the Phila- 
delphia Cricket Club. 

The Great Shadow crossed Bates' life, in the loss of his wife, 
who died but a few weeks ago — February 20, 1922 — but on the other 
hand the new has entered it, for Rutherford Stockton Bates, his son, 
married and promptly put his father into the Beaming Bloc of Be- 
nign Grandfathers; wee Heston Bates II arriving April 19, 1916, 
and small Mary Caroline, January 14, 1922. 

Full of income tax and other conundrums, to be professionally 
—or any other way! — solved, while at work, Bates finds when at 
play, that his best relaxation comes from literature, a little of cards, 
a bit of the theatre; unless it be golf! Whereupon enough said. 
His idea of a hobby, is that of "keeping his nose pushed hard against 
the grindstone" (which is not the editor's idea of such) and as to 
weakness he admits to occasional strong language — an admission 
of pure redundancy, in view of having already admitted golf. He 
affirms that he has given up smoking and that he cannot get anything 
to drink. 

The editor had expected to get away with this volume free 
from poetry — neither a stich of verse nor a distich, — and along comes 
Bates and sends his message to the Class in verse! But it is short! 
"A lot of hurry, We have our day 

A deal of sadness; As clod or poet; 

Too much worry, Life slips away 

A little gladness. Before we know it. 

Why are we here 

So full of troubles? 
Who knows? For we're 

But drifting bubbles. 

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WILLIAM CASPER BENKERT 

Whether Benkert is as active in real estate as he is in the '87 
world, in its interests and welfare, or as active in '87 as he is in 
real estate, is perhaps after all but a splitting of hairs, for all who 
know the bounding Benkert ball, know that it is nothing but resili- 
ence, and that he scores a hundred in whatever field he plays. 

Continuing in the last ten years in the real estate business, 
Benkert comes close to being an expert in Philadelphia realty mat- 
ters; and that such is not alone in the mere buying and selling, but 
from the broader view, the study and the analysis of such work, is 
easily to be gathered from remarking the titles of some of his recent 
papers and publications: 

"Appraising Water Front and Wharf Properties in Philadelphia," 

February, 1916. 
"Rent Profiteering," September, 1919. 
"Philadelphia Taxation Problem," January, 1921. 
"Industrial Philadelphia" — now in preparation. 

Such work leads to larger interests and associations, and we 
now find Benkert belonging only to the Union League, the Kiwanis 
Club, the Automobile Club of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Real 
Estate Board, the National Association of Real Estate Exchange, 
the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, the Philadelphia Bourse, 
the Philadelphia Museum, the School of Industrial Art, Pennsylva- 
nia Academy of the Fine Arts, Bureau of Municipal Research, Lulu 
Temple, Shrine Club of Philadelphia, University Lodge, No. 610, 
F. A. M. ; University Chapter, No. 256, R. A. M. ; Mary Com- 
mandery, No. 36, and Joppa Council 46. 

During the War Benkert's daughter, Margaret, worked with 
the S. W. Penn'a Chapter of the American Red Cross and is still 
connected with them ; while Marion served eight hundred hours with 
the American Red Cross, 1917-1918; with the Philadelphia Section, 
Navy League of the U. S. and with the Emergency Aid of Penn'a, 
191 8-19 19; and was actively engaged in each war loan. 

Benkert has now entered the grandfather's club, by virtue of 
one William Casper Benkert, III, born November 2, 19 17, and 
Charles Coulter Benkert, Jr., born July 29, 1919. 

Benkert's mental rest is reading ; he admits to the vice of "over- 
feeding and playing sour notes on a violin," but his real joy is found 
out of doors. Take it from him direct — on a place on the Nesham- 



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iny, where he shoots clay pigeons, splits logs and does other outdoor 
delights ; as take also his message to the Class : 

"In 1905 I entered the real estate business, since which time every 
spare moment has been given to perfecting myself in this line, with the hope 
that sometime I may accumulate enough funds to retire from active business. 

My chief pleasure has been work — work in the real estate field. I have 
held every position from the lowest to the highest in the Philadelphia Real 
Estate Board, and am now a retired President and on the Advisory Board ; 
which indicates that a man holding this position is on to his job. 

Being of the opinion that a man is entitled to a certain amount of play, 
every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday I spend up in the woods and work 
in the open. 

With all my troubles in business, I have endeavored to go along in the 
even tenor of my way, overcoming each difficulty as it arises, and fully 
appreciating all the gifts that have been bestowed upon me. 

If there is any one man in '87 who gets more out of life than I do — 
anyone who enjoys his work more or who can play better — I should like to 
meet him." 

CHARLES SELIGMAN BERNHEIMER 

The accounts of the industrious Bernheimer in the Histories 

of 1907 and 19 12, fully show the comprehensive character of the 

sociological and educational work that has been his life work; and 

that he is continuing on in such is shown by recent word from him : 

"Since leaving Philadelphia in 1906, I have been professionally engaged 
in social work, have written on social problems, lectured on Americaniza- 
tion (for the State Educational Department of New York) and occupied in 
social and recreational work." 

Bernheimer was Superintendent of the Hebrew Educational So- 
ciety in Brooklyn until 1919. He has since been occupied in social 
surveys of various communities; latterly for the Jewish Welfare 
Board of New York. Resident in New York, his associations are: 
The Pharisees, American Economic Association, American Socio- 
logical Society, Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Judaeans, 
Jewish Publication Society of America, American Jewish Historical 
Society and the Conference of Social Work. 

To his publications may be added: 

"Boys Clubs" (co-author). 

"Jewish Americanization Agencies" in the "American." 
Jewish "Year Book" for 1921-22. 

And various articles and book reviews dealing with social 
problems. 



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Bernheimer, like Ashbrook, came, saw and was conquered, as 
he also wavered and fell and vacated bachelorhood, in the marrying 
Lillian Davis, August 18, 19 15. 

During the war Bernheimer organized and directed various 
drives and campaigns, mostly in the Brooklyn district, being chair- 
man of that district in the United War Work campaign; and with 
Mrs. Bernheimer, was active in the organization of foreign born 
mothers in food conservatism. 

To dust out the cob-webs, Bernheimer takes in a good play or 

book; or if out doors calls, he enjoys walking, a bit of tennis, and 

on rare occasions, some skating. He has neither hobbies nor vices 

if his return be read ad literatim and his thought expressed for the 

Class, is: 

"It is a fine feeling that you have an at-one-ness with your 
fellow Classmates, no matter how varied their careers are from 
your own." 



ALEXANDER MERCER BIDDLE 

Biddle continues to live at Torresdale, on the Delaware, north 
of Philadelphia, where his home has been for years. Not in active 
business, for a long period out of health, and having had some oi 
the deepest shadows cross his life, somehow, when one meets him, 
there is a stronger hand clasp than usual, as one again hopes to catch 
the old twinkle of his eye — that can be and is, when the sun shines. 

We suspect, however, that Biddle, a philosopher, accepting 
what comes in life, yet gets a good deal of pleasure out of it. He 
confesses to primitive love for chickens — tho' disclaiming any interest 
in any such except of the feathered variety. It is somewhat difficult 
to reconcile this with his returning the Racquet Club as his sole 
Club, for we doubt if in that establishment, the feathered variety is 
ever thought of, let alone being mentioned, unless it be by the head 
waiter. Biddle does some motoring; some cruising; some hunting; 
all to the good, and as the best of antidotes to what he views as 
his chiefest weakness, tersely expressed in three letters, "age." 

Biddle lost his daughter Harriet, in a railway accident of excep- 
tional shock, September 2nd, 19 13, that made the hearts of all his 
friends go out to him. His son, A. Mercer, Jr., was in the Aviation 
Transport Corps during the war period. 



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CHARLES BLOOMINGDALE, JR. 

Perennial Karl ! Never aging ; ever young ; adding to the gaiety 
of whatever nation he may inhabit — if joy be unconfined; finely 
doing with all ability, whenever the serious dominates! 

Bloomingdale's latest niche of fame, is as President of the Poor 
Richard Club of Philadelphia — 1921 — and in that capacity, and still 
as a vice president, the local spot light of Philadelphia publicity 
seems "set" on Camac Street, the club's location. Whether Bloom- 
ingdale is the Club, or the Club is Bloomingdale we care not; the 
difference is indistinguishable to our minds. In New York, Bloom- 
ingdale's feet, he wends, towards the Friars' Club in which thea- 
trical organization he finds zest and pleasure. 

Blomingdale's trusty typewriter keeps a grinding, and the list 
of stories, poems, and assorted writings that spill off his table is 
only equalled by the departments in a Woolworth's emporium or the 
list of learned societies of which Witmer Stone is a member {quod 
vide. ) 

Karl's able and eloquent pen, however, can line up for serious 
action when there is occasion for it, as we know; and when Liberty 
Loan and Victory Loan advertisements were needed, he wrote many 
compelling ones, some of which went all over the country. He re- 
ports, indeed, as casualities in this period, no less than six fountain 
pens destroyed in midnight attacks on "ads." 

Bloomingdale is a contributing and associate editor of the Penn- 
sylvania Gazette, at the University, and also finds time to help the 
Junior Red Cross. Likewise does he vigorously sit on the Executive 
Committee of the y^w/i-Prohibition League. His other diversions are 
reading, writing and the juggling of income tax figures — which latter, 
even so, is better than having none to juggle. His hobby is col- 
lecting autographed theatrical pictures. We should think that the 
personal securing of such from Lydia Pinkham — or was it Thomp- 
son? — Annette Kellerman, Jenny Lind, Anna Held, or Charmion, 
queen of the trapeze clothes shedders, would not be without its charm 
and adventure. Having eighty-seven varieties of vice, Blooming- 
dale finds it impossible to name the chief one. The editor would 
suggest his poetry? But then that at once raises the question of what 
is poetry? Is this? 



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"I hope the Class will live and thrive 

To twice the age of thirty-five ; 
For lo, the Bible says that men 
May compass three score years and ten — 

So, sure a class may live that long, 

Extolled in story, verse and song; 
Then, here's my wish for '87 — 
Long life on Earth — a harp in Heaven!" 

JOSEPH SPENCER BROCK 

Brock has ever been viewed as the sweet singer of '87 — and to 
read his biographies in preceding histories, one sees but a perspective 
of music, song and verse. The editor had quite thought that to 
properly write up a notice of Brock for this edition, he would have 
to hire a hand organ to create that musical atmosphere that would 
result in suitably harmonious expressions emanating from his Rem- 
ington No. 10 ribbon. But like the editor, who had so much Pres- 
byterian injected into him as a youngster that he has travelled on it 
ever since and never now gets within the range of such, perhaps 
Brock too, is travelling on early piety and past momentum, for in 
his return, there is not a solitary musical note. On the contrary 
it reeks with trade and commerce. 

Still in Philadelphia, Brock for several years has been the Pres- 
ident-Manager of the Feister-Owen Press, 19 12-18; Assistant to 
the President of the American Metal Works, for a year; Sales 
Manager of Young, Smyth, Field Company, 19 19-21 ; and is now 
General Manager of the Edward Darby Sons Company. We note 
with glee that he is highly entrenched in the ranks of the Philadelphia 
Association of Credit Men, having filled most of its offices up to 
President. This may be a good tip, and worth remembering if any 
'87 men "go broke" at the coming 35th Reunion. Brock has been 
a member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society since 1897 an d 
of the University Club since 1903. His sons, J. Spencer, Jr., and 
Oliver Wolcott are out at old Penn; the former in the Wharton 
School, '25, and the latter in Arts, '25. His daughter, Eleanor 
Spencer, did her bit in 19 18-19 in the Bureau of Social Records, 
office of the Adjutant General, in Washington, D. C. 

As a loyal cooperative member of the Class, Brock has ever 
been second to none, and his admiration of it and a great reason 
therefore he thus expresses: 



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"The members of the Class of '87 possessed widely varying tastes, 
abilities, ideals and ambitions. Their later occupations tended towards 
divergence. That they should demonstrate, to an increasing degree during 
thirty-five years, their devotion to the Class and their interest in the wel- 
fare of their fellow members, has always been to me a source of wonder 
and admiration." 



CLARENCE KING BROWN 

"C. K." might be considered as our up-state Empire State re- 
presentative, for ever since leaving Philadelphia in the early days, 
he seems to have been in that Commonwealth, following varied 
business connections. 

Brown at present is living at Syracuse. There he holds the 
position of Accountant, with the Rochester & Syracuse Railroad 
Company. 

He is a member of Delta Psi, since 1883; the Masons, since 
1892; the Elks, since 1912 and the Citizens' Club since 1915. When 
he seeks diversion, as he all too briefly indicates in writing less of 
interest about himself than we are sure that he could have done, he 
finds it on the golf course, or perhaps makes himself unfindable for 
awhile, on some hunting or fishing trip. 

He records no vices; and thus is the high level of the virtue of 
'87's men, more or less convincingly maintained! 

EDGAR FRENCH BROWN 

No reply. 

HENRY LONGSTRETH BROWN 

Brown, until a few years ago, was active in the general building 
and construction business in Philadelphia, — until the fall of 19 16, 
when he writes: 

"I retired from that on account of poor health and finally located in 
southern California, the land of sunshine and flowers, and almost feel again 
like the days of '87. 

"Will always be glad to see any of my classmates seeking health or 
diversion in this part of the country." 

In June, 1921, Brown married Winifred Jane Jones; and of 
a son by his first wife, we learn that "H. L., Jr.," enlisted as a 

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private in the A. E. F., 1917, was made a 2nd lieutenant; saw service 
in France and after the armistice, resigned. 

Brown makes a pretty good outpost for '87 on the southwest 
corner of our continent and any one who is in position to accept 
his invitation to look him up, in Los Angeles, will be a sure winner. 

FRANCIS ASBURY BRUNER 

Bruner continues as a manufacturer of tapestries in Philadelphia 
and he beats the verbose and wordy would-be Acting Historian and 
his foolish set of twenty questions, all hollow, by compressing the 
whole thing, in his return word, into the following compact twenty 
words : 

"During the last ten years ray health has been 
good and my time has been taken up with ray busi- 
ness." 

DANIEL EDWARD BYRNE 

No reply. 

HERBERT BANCROFT CARPENTER 

The ever busy, the ever active Carpenter — he who works by 
day, and also, like certain pills, as alleged by the class and without 
denial, at night, — reports but little if any change. 

While at times Carpenter shines as does his own nude head, 
— as does the editor's, and others of the Class, in reflected light, — 
as "the physician for Penrose" — like unto "the husband of Mrs. 
Langtry," yet he also shines on his own merits; for he has now 
reached the professional stage where in issuing bulletins as to a 
patient's condition, he signs but "Carpenter." And beyond that, 
what is there in medical prestige? Perhaps no M. D. in our class 
has gone along in more consistent and generally successful work, 
than has Carpenter; and he does work. Long hours and ably and 
with recognized fineness and success. And this is not alone in his 
doctoring, for as an officer in numerous organizations, he also helps 
row the boat. 

He is a member of the General Alumni Society of the U. of P. ; 
of the Medical Alumni ; and a member of its Executive Committee 



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for ten years; he is a member of the Philadelphia Alumni Society 
of the Medical Department, and a past president and treasurer for 
twenty years of the Medical Clubs of Philadelphia; the Physicians' 
Motor Club; the Philadelphia Medical Society, the American Med- 
ical Association and the Philadelphia Pediatric Society of which 
he is an ex-vice president, and a member of the executive committee. 
In his more strictly social or other associations, Carpenter belongs 
to the Racquet Club, the City Club, the Colonial Society of Penn- 
sylvania, the Pennsylvania Sons of the Revolution, and the Surgeon 
and Member Society of Mayflower Descendants of Pennsylvania. 

Carpenter is still single. During the war he was a member 
of the Advisory Draft Board. He is also a worker for the Uni- 
versity, being a member of Committee for Membership Increase of 
the Alumni Society. 

When Carpenter relaxes "he takes in a show" — which awful 
Americanism is the editor's and not Carpenter's, — reads a bit, or 
takes a small near-white dog a walk in Rittenhouse Square, or 
smokes or goes a gardening ; which latter he is careful to state is not 
roof gardening. So his statement that he has no debts, is quite un- 
derstandable. 

He sums up his current condition by saying: 

"I keep busy trying to keep some members of '87 alive ; dodging re- 
porters and giving advice, never followed. Have been in fine health and 
am "on the job" working from 12 to 18 hours a day; and working every 
day. Keep cheerful and have no debts." 

FREDERICK COLTON CLARKE 

Clarke, it will be remembered, has been ever in the locomotive 
business with the American Locomotive Works at Schenectady, N.Y., 
and he is still there. It would — or should — be a safe assertion that 
by this time what he doesn't know about locomotives is probably not 
worth the knowing. 

But his single track condition as reported in previous years 
has been changed to a double track one, as he advises that May 17, 
19 1 6, he married Laura Col ton Burbank. And that extensions, 
switches, sidings, and other metaphorical appurtenances are to be a 
part of the ultimate F. C. C. and L. C. B. system, may be noted 
from the arrival "on time," in a manner of speaking, of F. C. Clarke, 
Jr., April 30, 19 17. 

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And in all the answers received by the editor to question No. 
1 6, as to one's greatest diversion or pleasure, what better one has 
been given, after all, than Clarke's, "Playing with my four-year- 
old son"! 



CHARLES CONDIT CLIFFORD 

No reply. 



CRAWFORD COATES 

If there is anything in excellent long distance representation, 
Coates, away up in Victoria, B. C. — and a long way from his birth- 
place in Capetown, South Africa, — will about take the premier posi- 
tion, and that is favorably compounded by the fact that despite long 
absence and long distance, Coates' continuing and high interest in 
'87 affairs seems, if anything, stronger than ever. Many letters re- 
ceived at the Reunions, and of which some have been worthily filed 
in the minute book, attest this. 

Coates' experiences read like a romance. His early architectural 
work in Philadelphia; his later travels; his experiences in the Spanish 
War; his resultant protracted and crippling illness; his uphill 
struggle for rejuvenation and his later extensive work in the west, 
all form too long a story to here repeat, inasmuch as they are re- 
counted in the 1907 and the 19 12 histories. And all such but whet 
the interest to know of how he is and how things are with him now. 
We have word ; word of both shadow and of sunshine but of ever 
continuing interest and reflecting the ever gritty and hopeful Coates. 
For instance, his letter to Magee: 

"Dear Jim: 

Though the samples of Dion and Keeley look like old sports compared 
with a kid like me, I recognize them just the same. 

Do you remember the only game of chess I won, on the "fools mate," 
in our tournament? What! What! 

Here come the family, who have been to see Marshal Joffre, 9.40 p. m. 
at Parliament Buildings, while I sit in an easy chair with varicose veins 
and legs propped up on a lounge. One vein has broken and is ulcerated 
so that I can hardly walk — (strange the Government says I have not got 
varicose veins). Oh, I will get over this all right, just as I do other things. 
After all, with a family such as mine, we should feel well repaid. 

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My photograph annoys me — a good likeness, but the story it is likely 
to tell is misleading. Maybe it is more truth than myself. If not now, 
eventually. So let it go at that. How are you, anyway? 

Sincerely, 

CRAWF." 

Coates was with the Canadian Explosives, Lt., as designer and 
draughtsman, 1914-16, and since then has dealt in antiques. He is 
a member of Zeta Phi, a Master Mason and one of the Managers 
of St. Andrew's Church. Two children have come since 1912: 
Sarah Elizabeth, February 12, 1914, and Laura May, March 5, 
191 7. With the Explosives Co. early in the war, his further ex- 
periences he relates: 

"Notwithstanding many applications to the U. S. Government for en- 
gagements, all I received were flowery decorated certificates and buttons. 
Six applications for active service in Canada were also turned down, due 
to physical disability, the result of the Spanish-American War." 

Somehow we get a better understanding of the spirit of Princess 
Pat's regiment, as we read the above. In unbeatable spirit, pluck, 
optimism, and grit, fighting against tough conditions, it seems to 
the editor that no one in '87 quite matches Coates, to whom we are 
sure the Class takes off its collective hat. 

Coates has produced a successor, if the specifications transmitted 
are any indication ; a chip of the old stuff that threatens to even out- 
strip his dad: "My eldest son, H. C, sixteen, five feet eleven and 
weighing a hundred and forty-six, passed No. 1, second year High; 
Levis, fourteen, second year High, gymnast, scholar, church worker, 
etc. ; Helen, twelve, entrance, High ; Holmes, ten, class below, No. 3 ; 
Elizabeth, eight, first two years at school, promoted five times and 
ranks No. 3 ; May, five, the brightest in the family." 

We can well understand that in answer to the question as to 
Coates' best pleasure, he replies "My family." His weakness, he 
affirms as "Giving away that which belongs to others." His mes- 
sage to the Class is: 

"Next to the Fraternity, the Class of '87 is the most wonderful dynamic 
body of which I know. Though not having seen me for nearly twenty 
years, we live together as though it were yesterday. Three times I have 
been given up by the physicians. Yet the grace of God, a wife beyond 
compare and the moral and mental support of '87 keep me still on top and 
going strong." 

Hurrah for Coates! 



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WILLIAM HOLMES COOKMAN 

No reply. 

CHARLES TYLER COWPERTHWAIT 

It is said of Presidential incumbents that often those in whose 
administrations the least noise is made, yet are of the greatest value 
to the nation; and this thought comes to one as in the revolving 
colors of the Class kaleidescope Cowperthwait's name comes to the 
fore. Going along quietly, steadily administering, conscientiously 
striving, in all Class matters, Cowperthwait seems precisely the same 
even human package of excellence that he did to Ashbrook, who 
wrote upon him an eulogy in 19 12 and to which the present writer 
wholly subscribes. And what more an evidence of the above, than 
precisely as the editor is writing these words, to find a package 
arriving from helpful Cowperthwait, with some matter that he said 
he would attend to; fully covered, and in one-third the expected 
time! 

When Cowperthwait gets tired of the insurance buiness, where 
we find him still after twenty-eight years, with the Philadelphia 
Contributionship — wherein he and Somers Smith in team work do 
the things undone by the other or left in the lurch from golf primal 
requirements, — he would seem to gravitate to clubs, if his present 
affiliations give any inkling of his habits. Witness the Philadelphia 
Cricket Club, in which he serves as well as director and on the 
admission committee; the Philadelphia Club; the University Club; 
the Racquet Club; the Down Town Club; the Sunnybrook Golf 
Club (treasurer since 1916 and director), and the Sons of the 
Revolution. 

An ardent admirer of old Penn, his oldest son, Lindley, entered 
the Electrical Engineering Department, September 1921, and of the 
other two he says, "I expect to enter them in the University in due 
course." 

In war work, Cowperthwait participated in Liberty Loan 
drives; in pleasures he is fond of reading and cards, and puts golf 
above them both. He ties Coates in rating his family as his chiefest 
pleasure and hobby and affirms his chiefest weakness as "weakness," 
which is distinctly unaccepted by all who know him. His message: 

"We all of us doubtless know the parable of the servant who returned 
to his Master the talents entrusted to him, intact, but, whether through 

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inability or lack of initiative, without increase, and we remember the reward 
he received. The same conditions prevail today. A negative record is of 
but little value. Something positive must have been done to be of interest. 
In reviewing the past thirty years of my life, among the very pleasantest 
episodes, I place the association with my Classmates, either individually or 
at our Reunions. Our motto truly expresses my feelings and I hope we 
will have many more meetings to remember pleasantly." 

WARDER CRESSON 

Cresson's career has been in engineering and industrial lines, 
and he still is so occupied. 

Back in 19 12-13 he was with the Consolidated Coal Company, 
of Fairmount, West Virginia; in 1914-15 with the Franklin Fire 
Insurance Company of Philadelphia. In the early war period, he 
was first assistant cashier and paymaster at the Remington Arms 
establishment at Eddystone, Pa., and from 19 18 to 1921 has been 
general auditor for a number of coal and other companies in the 
Fairmount district in West Virginia. 

He matches Ashbrook's announcement of the past, as to being 
a member of the Geographical Society, but less startling or dangerous 
are his diversions: reading, music, gardening, tennis, walks; — or his 
vice, "burning the midnight oil." We would rate burning oil as 
carrying but little hazard. It is the burning of electric lights in 
jazz surrounded environment that these days carries the real risk — 
and expense! 

Cresson's views, aims, and general status, he relates thusly: 
"Being a man of few words, and really not having anything to say on 
the above that would be worth listening to or fit for publication, it is hard 
to comply with the above request. For the past ten years I have been in 
excellent health most of the time, have been working hard, paying my debts 
and trying to give every one a square deal. As a message to The Class, 
words fail me. Very recently I heard a song in vaudeville, the theme of 
which was, "Say it with liquor," and while I don't drink, the sentiment fits 
in with the only message that comes to me: — "Here's to '87, drink her down, 
drink her down." You can't say that with flowers. Even dandelion blossom 
wine would hardly answer. 

(And in order that you may be under no misapprehension regarding my 
position on this subject I will say that all my life I have been against the 
saloon and in favor of real, practical prohibition, but the Volstead Act is 
simply ABSURD.)" 

FRANK HUGHES CULIN 

No reply. 

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CLARENCE WILLIAM DOLAN 

No reply. 

EDWARDS SANFORD DUNN 

Dunn is another of those sweet Class warblers, so tinctured in 
harmony of soul, waistcoat and music as to have made the editor 
expect to receive his return, set to music and accompanied by nothing 
less than a calliope. But the interruption to the Muse of Music 
referred to in earlier histories, seems, like the plastic mass of Bar- 
num's Cardiff giant, to have become "set" as stone, for Dunn's 
report of his past ten years' career, vicissitudes, vices, amours or 
what not, when opened by an expectant editor, was compressed in 
the tabloid statement that he has continued in the directorship, treas- 
ureship and vice-presidency of the Philadelphia Warehouse Com- 
pany; which worthy but prosaic line of industry would seem to be 
about as opposite to the musical extravaganzas that have formed 
some of his past life, as the poles! 

However, we are able to extract the important information that 
his club memberships have increased by thirty-three and a third per 
cent; as his membership in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
in the University Barge Club, and in the Philadelphia Skating Club, 
has been rounded out by joining the St. Andrew's Society in 1920. 

Dunn's chronic sense of humor is in evidence in his reply 
to "Greatest mental pleasure?" which he names as "sleeping." Out- 
door pleasures he gives as Isaak Waltoning and dallying with dah- 
lias; and his hobby: 

"Smoking and preaching about Abou ben Adhem 
to a generation that asks "What's the guy's battin' 
average?" 

His swan song, as he styles his Class message, is: 

"My most vivid impressions of the last decade are as follows: — Con- 
tinuous overtime to supplement good salaries paid in bad money; comrade- 
ship in study and play with my children; emotional strain over the war, 
and not being in it; over "Neutrality in Thought" and other national 
shames ; over the sacrifice of the wartime spiritual awakening on the altar 
of sect theology; over "blocs" and the epidemic of legislative panaceas; 
over prohibition and the recrudescence of seventeenth century intolerant 
bigotry; and (on the other side) over the appointment of George Pepper as 
United States Senator, and the method thereof." 



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EDGAR PARDEE EARLE 

Earle is another of those well balanced '87 men who have pur- 
sued an even tenor of way, and of whom history will record that 
they were good fathers, good husbands, good workers, able and de- 
pendable. That such seems to bring some ultimate measure of reward, 
one can even see from the window of a trolley car, for we no longer 
find him in some old and antiquated quarters as in the early (Ouch! 
Earle; unintended — don't throw bricks) days, but now looming 
large as the President of the "Earle Gear and Machine Company" 
in a fine new plant at Wayne and Stenton Avenues, Philadelphia. 
There he makes anything in gears, and we have no doubt but that 
had Atlas only had an Earle gear, he would not have bewailed the 
uselessness of a lever without a fulcrum. And the writer is bewail- 
ing that he did not remember Earle's ability in this line, for had he, 
he would surely have been able to secure some machine or power 
driven geared corkscrew, that would have been powerful enough 
to have extracted answers from those obdurate of the Class who 
have not responded to his ordinary approaches. Such is hind sight! 

That Earle has meshed into high business gear is shown by some 

business connections such as these: 

President, the Linville River Railway Company. 

Director, the E. F. & W. U. C. R. R. Co. 

Director, Cranberry T. & C. Co. 

Director, North Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 

Director, Black Creek Improvement Company. 

Councilman, Borough of Mantoloking. 

Treasurer, Mantoloking Yacht Club. 

Secretary, Board of Trustees of St. Simon's by the Sea. 

to say nothing of his memberships in the Union League of Philadel- 
phia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Military Order of 
the Loyal Legion, the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, and the 
Society of Mayflower descendents of Pennsylvania. 

To his great regret, Earle was not in war work, but the record 
of his children is a pretty good substitute: 

Murray Earle — On Mexican border with Pennsylvania National Guard, 
in 1916; discharged May 16, 1917. Enlisted Aviation Section, Signal Corps, 
May 16, 1917. Commissioned first lieutenant October 25, 1917 and rated 
reserve military aviator. Promoted to captaincy October 9, 1918. Dis- 
charged January 6, 1919. Stationed at Chandler Field, Essington, Pa.; 
Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, La., and Park Place, Houston, Tex., during 
whole term of service. 



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Alice P. Earle — National League for Woman's Service, 1917 to August, 
1918; Army Nursing Corps, at Camp Jackson, S. C, August, 1918, to Feb- 
ruary, 1919. 

Margaret Earle — National League for Woman's Service, 1917 to 1919. 

Virginia Earle — National League for Woman's Service, 1917 to 1919. 

Earle minimizes what he occasionally does for the University 
and his associations with charities. We suspect that the actuality 
would read better than his modest reference thereto. His relaxation 
is found in sitting over and manipulating a gear box and chariot — 
otherwise a modern automobile and he confides that his chief weak- 
ness is his grandchildren. Up to the time of going to press, and 
since 19 12, the score is: 

Harry A. Holland, Jr., February 4, 1920. 

Jane Earle, May 26, 1920. 



JOSEPH SKETCHLEY ELVERSON 

Any town with such a name as Catasauqua excites attention at 
once, just as does Sheboygan, Oshkosh, Skowhegan, Red Tank or 
other wierdly titled places. The editor has not had time to turn 
to the cyclopedia and see what is said about Catasauqua, or learn 
as to its chief characteristic. But if he had, he has small doubt but 
that he would find something like this: 

"Catasauqua; An industrial centre on the Lehigh River, in eastern 
Pennsylvania. The river flows alternately black and white, according to 
the coal dust that comes down. Chief characteristic of the community is 
Mr. Sketch Elverson, of the Class of '87, U. of P.; and some unimportant 
associates. The influence of Mr. Elverson has been far reaching, etc., 
etc., etc." 

What else can one feel more likely to be the case, after reading 
Sketch's return. For he is still at the old stand, in that queerly 
labelled town — from which he once in a while radiates, to some 
Reunion or other metropolitan function — and is seemingly some fac- 
tor in local industrial and other affairs; witness his list during 191 2 
to '22. 

Late treasurer and director, Fuller-Lehigh Co., Fullerton ; 

Director, National Bank of Catasauqua, 1914; 

Director, Empire Steel & Iron Co. ; 

Director, Crane Iron Works ; 

Director, Lehigh Pulverizer Co.; 

Director, Allentown Portland Cement Co., to 1920; 

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Member Republican State Committee for Lehigh County, from 

1920; 
Member, Catasauqua School Board, from 1914; ex-president 

and present vice-president. 

And that Philadelphia, New York, Virginia and way stations 
are in his varied interests inclusive, may be fathomed from his club 
list, etc. : 

Catasauqua Club since 1900; 
Engineers Club, New York; 
University Club, Philadelphia; 
Wallops Island Club, Virginia ; 
Lehigh Country Club, Pennsylvania; 
Iron & Steel Institute, U. S. A., etc., etc. 

We therefore opine that there can be no question as to "Who's 
who" in Catasauqua, nor that material is lacking for the "Who's 
who" of Pennsylvania as far as that region is concerned. 

From the personal standpoint, Elverson decries having been 
"Married since 1912?" as the question blank asked; for — charged 
with that same keep-the-home-fires-burning spirit that fired Salter — 
he sweetly affirms that "he prefers being Mrs. Elverson's second 
husband." 

Of his boys, his second son, James Fuller, is now at the Uni- 
versity of Virginia, College '22. Both his sons — whom Sketch says 
are the best part of him — have all to the good war records. 

The oldest, Joseph Fuller, entered 4th Provisional Traning Camp at 
Fort Niagara, May 11, 1917. In training there from May nth for the first 
five weeks in the 2nd Troop; transferred then to 3rd Battery, August 4 to 
August 14, 1917, at Ithaca School of U. S. S. M. A. Honorably discharged 
from his enlistment under Section 54, National Defense Act, by reason of 
expiration of term of enlistment. August 27, 1917, enlisted at Harrisburg, 
September 1, 1917, reported Camp Meade for duty and assignment in artil- 
lery. Served as private at Division Headquarters. Transferred to Head- 
quarters Troop, 79th Division, September 5th; September 8th, made ser- 
geant; then sergeant charge Motor Transportation at 79th Division Head- 
quarters; sergeant, 3rd Platoon of Division Headquarters Troop. Sailed 
from U. S. A., July 8, 1918. Arrived, U. S. A., May 29, 1919. Made 1st 
sergeant, July 24, 1918. Took part in following engagements: Sector 304 
(offensive), September 13-25, 1918 ;Meuse-Argonne (offensive); Montfau- 
con, September 26-30, 1918; Grande Montagne, October 28 to Nov. 5, 1918; 
Troyon Sector (defensive), October 8-26, 1918. Was disabled on account 
gassing, the night of November 4-5, 1918, at Vaucherville in the Grande 
Montagne Sector. Discharged, first sergeant, at Camp Dix, N. J., June 
5, 1919- 

The younger, James F., enlisted the 25th day of October, 1918, Reserve 
Station, Philadelphia, in the United States Marine Corps for the duration 
of the war. Upon leaving Philadelphia the 25th of October, 1918, arriv- 
ing at Pair Island, South Carolina, he was immediately dressed in a Marine 

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uniform, transferred to the manoeuvring grounds, and sent through a very 
thorough training, consisting of all Marine duties as to drill, Manual of 
Arms, and guard duty, the daily routine for eight weeks. After this came 
the Rifle Range, which continued for three weeks ; and every Marine had 
to qualify as an expert rifleman, sharpshooter, and marksman. This about 
completed the Marine training. January 10, 1919, he received his discharge 
from the United States Marine Corps. 

In his own war work, Elverson was chairman of the Four Min- 
ute Men for Lehigh County, and a member of the executive commit- 
tee of the Catasauqua Chapter of the Red Cross and even now, he 
is chairman of the committee on publication, Catasauqua Red Cross 
Survey, etc. 

As to his personal idiosyncrasies, Elverson is foxy — telling us 
in generalities rather than particularities. He admits mental pleas- 
ure in retrospection, in the thinking of past work and its pleasures; 
and in the air castles of new work in anticipation. Physical pleas- 
ure, he finds in artisanship around the place, increasing his own 
health and decreasing the nuisance of outsiders. His hobby, he 
affirms, as "my friends: I'm a hero worshiper." As to his vice, he 
quite admits indulging in one — unnamed — and a la Somers Smith, 
Shelton and others, in keeping very quiet as to the others! 



GEORGE FETTEROLF 

Fetterolf continues his active and onward career as one of the 
most active workers, the most prolific writer and one of the busiest 
bees of the medical profession, that graces the roster of '87. Dis- 
regarding still earlier histories, it took two pages in the 1907 history 
to record the data then attaching to him and the titles to his writings, 
which ranged from disquisitions upon the eye of a turtle to "2000 
questions in Anatomy." The 19 12 book required another page, to 
list the meal from his mill — but, Praise be! he lets the proof reader 
off this time, with "numerous articles" as the return of his literary 
talents. The multiple card index therefore that had been provided 
this time, to record his writings, can be reserved for the separate 
forms of praise of Senator Pepper. 

That Fetterolf's field is of no local nor narrow confines — and 
what the profession thinks of him — may be gathered from his posi- 
tions and memberships: 

Assistant Professor of Anatomy, University of Pennsylvania ; 
Assistant Laryngologist, University Hospital ; 

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Consulting Laryngologist, Kensington Dispensary for Tuberculosis, 
Eagleville Sanatarium, Eastern Pennsylvania Institution for the 
Feebleminded and Epileptic; 

Honorary degree — Sc.D., Ursinus; 

American Laryngological Association (chairman of Committee on 
Tonsil Investigation) ; 

College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Committee on Mutter Mu- 
seum) ; 

American Association of Anatomists; 

Society of the Sigma Xi; 

Art Club of Philadelphia; 

Merion Cricket Club. 

When he hasn't anything to do in conjunction with the above, 
Fetterolf invents some new surgical device; such as something for 
sticking radium needles into the tongue, pharynx and larynx; over 
and above all of which, he likewise found time to get married ; May 
26, 19 1 5, to Lila C. Prosser. In the war, he served as major in the 
Medical Corps at Camps Sevier and Hancock, 19 18-19. 

Yes, he does take vacations, for his hobby is "out of doors" and 
when he temporarily ceases to lecture, carve or pill his patients, or 
to teach the budding interne, he hies to the tall timber, where camp- 
ing and fishing fit him for more activity upon his return. When he 
cannot do that, he just naturally golfs. Being a doctor, he has no 
vices. Lady Nicotine he concedes as a weakness — which is more than 
some will. His philosophy and his hope: 

"There remains with me a persistent zest in everything which causes 
every added year to be a happier and more contented one than its prede- 
cessor. This combined with a sense of humor makes of life a beautiful 
thing and leaves but one wish ungratified, viz, a desire for a reincarnation 
1000 years hence so as to be able to observe medical and social progress at 
the end of ten centuries." 

JOHN SIMS FORBES 

Those who recall previous histories, will remember that Forbes' 
line has been engineering; with a high specialization upon water 
distillation. He has specialized so successfully that indeed now he 
almost walks sideways, the result of a gold metal of portentous 
dignity, awarded him by that not easily impressed and venerable 
institution, the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, for skill and in- 
vention in his line ; which has so protruded one half of or the wear- 
ing side of Forbes' chest that he has the lop-sided resultant walk in 
question. Forbes continued in this highly specialized field until five 

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years ago, when his "Forbes Company" was wound up; but as one 
cannot stop the Chicago Limited all at once, Forbes still takes out 
a patent or two, on evaporation and distillation, or some mechanical 
device, and still researches and experiments in the fields of stills, 
heat insulation, heat economics and allied what-nots. 

During the war he was associated in collaboration with the 
Consulting Engineer of the American International Shipbuilding 
Corporation. 

Forbes has been so saturated in his water work the greater part 
of his active life, that it has become his play — or at least the line 
of demarcation is quite indistinguishable. So that when he is asked 
what are his diversions and pleasures, the inquirer gets the authentic 
and highbrow information direct, that research and physical and 
mechanical investigation constitutes such, where ordinary mortals may 
say Burton Holmes lectures or pinochle. 

Should Forbes ever suspend both his morals and his water dis- 
tillation occupations, we should surmise that in — ahem — allied lines, 
he might in these days, become a very wealthy man. 

LEE KAUFER FRANKEL 

'87 has no man to surpass Lee K. Frankel, in industry, research, 
comprehensive work and deserved esteem; and on such flat statement 
the editor stands. 

An indefatigable worker, a specialist in the highest degree, 
especially in the economic and health and industrial conditions of 
the Jews of the East Side, New York, a great investigator and a 
prolific writer, Frankel has splendidly earned a reputation and a 
recognition of which he may be justly proud and of which his fellow 
Class certainly is. In 19 12 he was sixth vice-president of the Metro- 
politan Life Insurance Company of New York. The year 1922 finds 
him third vice-president. The Commonwealth, of New York, has 
honored him as a Commissioner of the State Board of Charities, in 
191 8; and less than a year ago — June, 192 1 — Washington invited 
him to act as Welfare Director of the National Postal System, and 
the many newspapers and other commendations at that time are still 
much in mind. 

When Frankel, after a long absence from 87's Reunions, was 
able to get to the one in January last, and made his little talk, it 

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was easy to see wherein his strength rests: sincerity, directness, ease 
of manner. His earnestness, his simplicity of speech, his pleasant 
personality were a delight; and coupled with his great industry, fully 
account for the results that he gets. 

During the war, Frankel was in the Council of National Defence, 
as a member of the executive committee of the Labor Committee 
and also in the American Red Cross — Committee of Cooperation; 
New York; 1917-19. 

His boy, Lee K., Jr., was in the Students' Army Training 
Corps (Columbia '19). His daughter, Elinor Ruth, will enter 
Groucher in 1922, and if these two scions of a fine father do not 
give a good account of themselves, our license as a prophet may be 
totally revoked. 

Answers to a list of the writings and associations that Frankel 
attaches to his name, brought forth the prompt, neat and volumin- 
ous comeback of forty-five of the former and forty-four of the latter. 
Bearing in mind that this is exclusive of his record prior to 19 12 
or the last history, in which much is recounted, we think that in 
this respect Frankel wins in a walk and eclipses the tally of Witmer 
Stone and all other leaders in such, in '87, almost put together ! We 
would have liked to publish the titles of such, but in truth does 
space forbid, and we can but refer the concerned ones to the files 
maintained by Stone, where this data will make an epochal mile- 
stone of this date. 

That such a well balanced man as Frankel should be temperate 
in his foibles and his vices is but to be expected. Reading, golf 
and smoking seem to be his limits. And as an insurance man, as 
well as a sociologist, and student of and lover of his fellow man, 
who would expect other than the answer as to his hobby: "Length- 
ening life." 

GEORGE HARRISON FRAZIER 

For a human tabloid package of energy and ableness in industry, 
chiefly on financial lines, in characteristic high-class interests and 
of the first order of citizenship, one may go far before finding one 
to excel George H. Frazier. 

Early allied with Brown Brothers & Company, of Philadelphia, 
and as a many year member of that conspicuous firm, Frazier's finan- 
cial and business interests, affiliations and directorships, seem to have 

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become as numerous as the red sentry gas filling stations in a modern 
surburban district! For instance, his entry in such respect, reads: 

Member of Messrs. Brown Brothers & Co. until December 31, 1920; 
retired on that date. President, the Franklin Sugar Refining Co.; director, 
the American Sugar Refining Co., Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Co., 
Lehigh & New England Railroad Co., Schuylkill River East Side Railroad 
Co., Citizens' Traction Co., Penn Central Light & Power Co., the Pennsyl- 
vania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, the Provi- 
dent Life & Trust Co. of Philadelphia, the Enterprise Mfg. Co. of Penn- 
sylvania, Franklin National Bank, Franklin Securities Corp., Pennsylvania 
Fire Insurance Co., Lehigh Power Securities Corp., Erie Lighting Co., Phil- 
adelphia & Western Railway Co., Eastern Shore Gas & Electric Co. ; man- 
ager, the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. 

Such interests have so closely confined Frazier to the business 
side that he has neither had nor been able to make much time for 
diversion, much as he has earned such, and it has therefore been 
some gratification to his friends to note his withdrawal from Brown 
Bros., December 31, 1920. Presumably that would give him 
opportunity for a well entitled meed of personal diversion and re- 
laxation. Yet one wonders whether he may not be so saturated 
with the love of business and the pleasure of achievement as to be 
like C. P. Huntingdon, who has preferred to continue to build 
bridges and start steamship lines for the Southern Pacific R. R. rather 
than to retire, finding his greatest pleasure after all in business 
activities. It is a safe wager that Frazier may be officially out of 
some past principal occupations, but that he will all the same, find 
the days all too short for many interests in which he will ever be 
occupied. 

On the social side, Frazier is a member of the Huntingdon 
Valley Country Club, and has been its president for years. He is 
also a member of the Philadelphia Club, the Racquet Club and the 
Rittenhouse Club. A man of such type is sure to be found lending 
a hand to institutions as well, that need help, and so we find Frazier 
also president of the Traveller's Aid Society of Philadelphia; treas- 
urer of the Hospital of the P. E. Church in Philadelphia, and a trus- 
tee of the University of Pennsylvania, since 1906, and a member of 
several of its committees. During the war, he served on various Lib- 
erty Loan drives and other local work. His son, George H., Jr., was 
a lieutenant in the Aviation Section, and saw service overseas. 

Frazier keeps his adipose tissue down by activity, mental and 
physical, and when jumping from one thing to another down town, 

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is insufficient, or he becomes for the moment tired of doing that, 
he displays similar agility on the tennis court, in summer. In winter 
he turns to squash racquets, or counts his grandchildren. For he, 
too, has elbowed his way into the van with Pepper and Somers 
Smith; the trio now holding second place in the grandchild sweep- 
stakes, being led only by Houston. It will be a good wager as to 
which of the three will first draw away, and about as uncertain a 
gamble as that of what lump of sugar a fly will alight upon. 

Frazier has sort of automatically eliminated himself from vices 
by being too busy to fool with such ; but now that he proposes to 
take a little more time for himself, it will be of interest to note the 
direction in which he sinks! Personally we would recommend that 
he follow Reath's doctrine, of enjoying all the vices that he can! 

FREDERICK WILLIAM WILSON GRAHAM 

Graham, with the same middle initials that stutter, as Ran- 
dolph P. R. would probably describe them, continues on in Phila- 
delphia, with the old established firm of Smith, Kline, French & 
Company, into which association he broke, so many years ago that the 
memory of man runneth not back — but which is around thirty- 
four years — in the perspective. 

Beyond this, and the notation of the Philadelphia Cricket Club 
being added to his personal collection of clubs, Graham vouchsafeth 
as to himself, nothing. For this we are wholly sorry for there is 
a lot of matter that we would find of abundant interest relating to 
Graham, could we but have had it. However, he tells us about 
two of his boys and that helps — a small bit. 

Fred W. W., Jr., went to Yale, as did also his brother Harry 
F. Fred W. W. left Yale when the war broke out, attended the 
first Officers' Training Camp at Niagara and was later commissioned 
second lieutenant, 19th F. A., Regular Army. He was commissioned 
first lieutenant, October, 19 18. He served sixteen months abroad, 
took part in four major actions and was twice cited for bravery. 

Harry F. volunteered and enlisted as a private in the 19th 
F. A., Regular Army, February, 19 18, age 18. He was commissioned 
a second lieutenant April, 19 19, and served fourteen months abroad. 
He took part in one major offensive and served in the army of occu- 
pation. 

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That kind of answer to question 13, — as to war work of one's 
children — makes us quite forget or much care whether the other 
questions are answered or not. 

FRANCIS EDMUND GREEN 

In earlier years, Green, as duly recorded in past histories, was 
a commission merchant, and for all the editor knows he may be yet, 
but he has nothing in black or in white or any other color, to now 
show it. Green's return duly came, but was of such similitude 
to a directory entry of name and address only — the least of the ex- 
citing things that attach to his tall personality, that the editor 
ventured to ask — like Dickens' "Oliver Twist," for more — but 
no amount of coaxing or wheedling secured any further helping. 
Uncle Remus once spoke of a colored preacher so able that he could 
unscrew the inscrutable, but that is more than this editorial worker 
can do, acrobatic tho' he be, so we are compelled to record only 
therefore, that Green still lives in Philadelphia, that he graces the 
avenues and the boulevards, and a chair at the Racquet Club; and 
beyond that, we know not. 

FRANK BIRD GUMMEY 

Gummey is another of the fine doctors in '87 ; no two alike — 
yet each one shining with a different lustre — each steadily adding 
to his own good name and to '87 's fame. 

The great story of Gummey's life in the past ten year period 
is indissolubly written into the story of the war and the part of 
that in which he participated. It is a long story, that those of us 
who have heard it from his own lips, or have read of it in his letters 
have found of absorbing interest. 

In the U. S. Army Medical Corps, Gummey found himself 
successively assistant adjutant U. S. General Hospital No. 10; de- 
tachment commander Debarkation Hospital No. 2; and chief of 
Medical Service U. S. Army General Hospital No. 41, where too, 
his wife did a lot of work in the Red Cross, as well as in Emergency 
Aid work in Philadelphia. 

It was hard work, this training and drilling of troops for hos- 
pital and field duty. It nearly ruined his practice, and Gummey 
now ironically points out that there is no way so fine to determine 

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ones loyal patients and fellow physicians, versus the slackers. But 
with a fine and cheerful optimism and hard work, Gummey has well 
nigh regained lost ground and again is able to even think of reading 
or to golf, hunt and fish like old times. 

Gummey is back in the Philadelphia district, a member of the 
County Medical Association, the American Medical Association, 
Pathological Society, College of Physicians, American Legion, Mili- 
tary Order of Foreign Wars, Delta Psi, Philadelphia Country Club, 
Wilderness Club, etc. 

Those who know what Gummey did — how well he did it — and 
how faithfully — in his hospital and war work first above referred 
to, the editor believes will join in the being sure that, when he 
finally reaches the Golden Gate, St. Peter, after a glance at Gum- 
mey's card, and his file of index cards of human records, will say, 
"Walk right in." 

WILLIAM HAHMAN 

Hahman says that he is still doing the same old thing, viz., get- 
ting a lot of men to dig coal, so that he can sell it. Which being 
interpreted, means that he is still at Altoona and still managing a 
coal mining business; in which he would seem to be probably having 
troubles of his own at present, if current newspaper accounts of that 
industry at large are to be credited. 

His children have reached the important epoch of being either 
in or headed for college; in this case, Penn State. Emma H., do- 
mestic science '19; William F., mining engineering, '23, and Caro- 
line F., about to enter in 1922. 

Hahman intimates that he has been free from honors or events 
of importance or casualties, because of having carried two accident 
policies for ten years; and remarks that he has not done anything 
of any account or worth noticing in the direction of the University. 
But the 19 12 History records an incident to the good, worth the re- 
marking, in the former direction, and the editor thinks that any 
one who takes an interest in such things as the Seamen's Institute, 
for instance, as does Hahman, shows naught but an appreciative 
and understanding mind and is too modest in his disclaimers. 

Hahman's hobby — he says — is running a farm, which he un- 
necessarily says is "an up-hill cross country jaunt for a mile." As 

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we recall the Altoona topography and surrounding hills, he is lucky 
it isn't upside down and for two miles! But he runs this farm in 
the true and ideal way, "by proxy." On the surface that bears out 
what he says is his chief weakness or vice; "laziness" — which the 
editor flatly questions. 

Hahman indites an epistle to the Class in the words and figures 
as follows: 

"And here comes Shelton, just when a feller is in the midst of puzzling 
over the intricacies of Income Tax Returns and asks for a message to your 
classmates! He don't care a rap whether you say it in Sanskrit or in 
Parsee. Ain't it a shame to be taken away from the pleasures of making 
out a financial report in which the chief characteristics are No, None, None, 
and have to tackle the job of writing verses about what you have been 
doing the past ten years, for the edification of your peers. I wonder could 
I hire Karl to say it in the flowers of rhetoric which Fred is after? How 
much a line, Karl? 

I dare say that my chiefest concern in the past ten years has been just 
like some of the rest of you, keeping busy chasing iron men to keep the wife 
and children in clothes and board. In my observation, such is the fate of 
most of those between the ages of forty and fifty-five, (our class, boys) who 
happen to be blessed with the said better half and smaller fractions. 

Take up your old class history occasionally, boys, and say with the 
writer, By Juvabit! It is pleasant sometimes to remember these things!" 

EMLEN TRENCHARD HALL 

Hall is in business and some years ago, for an extended period, 
was manager for Maitland, Armstrong & Co., New York — stained 
glass, etc. Since 191 6, however, he has been associated with Pierce 
& Skogmath, of 119 Broad street, New York city. As in telling 
us of this, Hall failed to mentipn in what line of industry this firm 
is active, we are left like Mahomet's coffin, floating in the blue empy- 
rean, in wonderment and surmise, as to whether such firm deals in or 
manufactures harps, halos, monkey wrenches, guaranteed antiques 
or what, with no rock of certainty in sight upon which to rest. 

Hall's old love for salt water, however, splashes up. He re- 
cords being — in 19 13 — of the executive committee of the Manto- 
loking Yacht Club, later treasurer of the Niantic Club at Flushing, 
L. I., as well as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Club, 
of New York. Nor happily, does he not fail to tell us that his 
daughter, Anna Davis Hall, was a Yeoman L. D. S., 3rd class; 
2nd class; and served in 19 18- 19 in the U. S. Naval District disburs- 
ing office. 

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WALTER EUGENE HARRINGTON 

No reply. 

JOHN McARTHUR HARRIS 

The 1907 history related much as to the successful career of 
Harris, as an architect to that date. It is the pleasure of the pres- 
ent Acting Historian to record but a continuance of such work, in 
even larger measure and better than ever. For, as Harris com- 
pactly expresses it : 

"Richards and I have been busy in putting up good size buildings, 
mostly east of the Mississippi and north of the James ; most of them fairly 
important monuments — artistic or engineering — in the localities where 
erected." 

With growing professional prestige, Harris has also grown 
in local esteem. Four years ago he was a member of Select Council, 
city of Philadelphia. He is a director in the Chelten Trust Com- 
pany, elder and trustee of the Second Presbyterian Church in Ger- 
mantown, and a member of the executive committee, Synod of Penn- 
sylvania. He is of course a member of the American Institute of 
Architects, as well as of the Union League, Philadelphia; Science 
and Art Club of Germantown, a life member of the Pennsylvania 
Academy of the Fine Arts, a member of the Geographical Society 
of Philadelphia, Presbyterian Social Union, Pennsylvania Historical 
Society, etc. 

Harris' broad citizenship found expression during the war as 
a member of the Council's Committee for the care and relief of fam- 
ilies of soldiers; and Mrs. Harris was secretary of the Philadelphia 
Branch, National League of Women's Service and secretary of the 
Board of School of Occupational Therapy Training War Aids ; while 
of his children: 

Daughter: Mrs. Cecil Alexander Clarke, Wichita, Kansas — Secretary 
to Chief of Staff, Cape May Hospital, for the whole active existence of this 
institution. 

Son-in-law: Cecil Alexander Clarke, Wichita, Kansas — Saw active 
service as second lieutenant attached to Company C, First Engineers, First 
Division, when the division occupied the defensive sector of Toul and when 
it was actively engaged on the Montdidier Noyon and Aisne Marne Sector. 
On the Tuscania when it was torpedoed. Wounded ten times in three en- 
gagements. The third engagement was on the Soisson-Chateau Thierry 
Road — a single-handed fight with six of the enemy and a machine gun, 
July 22nd, 1918; captured gun and killed all of the enemy, and received 

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seven machine gun bullets in legs and a blow on the head from a rifle butt. 
July 22, 1918, cited for "Gallantry in Action and especially meritorious 
service" by Commanding General of First Division. July 29th, 1918, com- 
missioned first lieutenant; Victory Medal with three battle clasps. The 
action of July 22nd put Lieutenant Clarke in the hospital, whence he was 
discharged June 23, 1920. 

Son : John McArthur Harris, Jr. — Received military training at Cul- 
ver, Indiana, summer of 1918, in anticipation of service the next year upon 
reaching the required age. 

So that take it by and large, '87 points with considerable pride 
to the records of the whole Harris family. Withal there is no one 
more modest than Harris. He minimizes his institutional work and 
charities and helps and just goes along and "saws wood" so quietly 
that no one hears the cutting of the saw teeth; but more than one 
quietly notes the accumulating pile of good work timber. 

If anyone is physically still going strong and is chief of the 
ozone tramps, we would suspect Harris as being it; for his chief 
diversion is walking, and he records that after crossing the fifty-year 
mark, he one day ticked off forty-eight miles. His mental diversion 
is reading American history and biography; his hobby is the Pocono 
mountains (Does he collect specimens on his mantel piece?) and his 
only — visible — alleged vice, is tobacco. 

JOHN DAWSON HAWKINS 

As an able Western representative of '87, Hawkins continues to 
shine under the lee of Pikes Peak and the refulgent rays of the Gar- 
den of the Gods, and some eight thousand feet above sea level ; being 
therefore at the present time, the nearest to Heaven of any of the 
Class, aviation adventurers excluded. In other words, he continues 
at Colorado Springs, and while he only puts in an occult tick in an- 
swer to most of the items of the question blank, we surmise that he 
still continues in the mining and collateral interests recorded in ear- 
lier histories. With our Sherlock Holmes instinct, however, we 
surmise from an analysis of his clubs, that John D. (nice ring, that 
"John D.") finds time for a little of travel, a little of running or 
lazing about, and relaxation; and we so hope. Witness membership 
in the Denver Club, the El Paso Club, the Cheyenne Mountain 
Country Club, Colorado Springs Country Club, the Franklin In- 
stitute of Philadelphia and the American Institute of Mining En- 
gineers. 

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Hawkins writes of both "sunshine and bad weather," but of 
good health and of children nearly grown up and that thro' them, the 
Wharton School of old Penn, will probably soon have a Hawkins 
on its roll. 

Hawkins chief diversion out of doors, is golf and the general 
all out doors, as affirmed by his club list above. His indoor sports 
are made up of books, bridge and chemical investigation. As to his 
chief vice, Hawkins reminds one of the bell boy who could not wait 
on two hundred rooms in a hotel and therefore declined to under- 
take to wait on any, as he, Hawkins, hesitates to name his chiefest 
vice, on the theory that he might be wrong; amongst his two hun- 
dred? 

CRAWFORD DAWES HENING 

No reply. 

WILLIAM WARNER HILL 

Hill says that in the past ten years he has been well and has 
moved along in his work of civil engineering, his life profession. 
That he may be viewed as a settled Philadelphia engineer, — if his 
clubs are any illumination on such a matter — may well be gathered, 
for what more representative quartette of the Quaker City clubs than 
the Union League, the Penn Club, the Engineers' Club and the 
Penn'a Historical Society ; all of whose rosters, Hill's name graces. 

And that Hill is settled and done for in other ways as well, is 
learned from his answer to question 7, for from it we learn that 
June 23, 19 1 7, he abandoned his bachelorhood and the circling around 
a transit alone, and after sufficient circling around, duly married 
Virginia de Rousse. 

Hill lines up with others who declare "reading" as their safe 
and sane indoor mental sport and as his chief hobby, but whether 
this is of the pink sporting or the society weeklies or of Chaucer, 
et al, Hill neglects to inform us. His chiefest vice he alleges as 
the frightful excess of smoking cigarettes at '87 's Reunions. As 
such occur but semi-annually, it would seem as though his mental 
system would not be impaired, his constitution ruined nor his do- 
mestic happiness imperilled. 

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SAMUEL FREDERIC HOUSTON 

Finely matching Frazier as a captain of industry and on finan- 
cial lines each with the other vieing, each salaaming with an "After 
you, my dear Gaston," in outdoing in extensive business interests and 
affiliations, comes Houston. What a pair they make, in the high 
level of accomplishment, prestige and esteem in which they are held, 
in the local world of their activities. And the best of it is that it 
is done with such an absence of a blare of trumpets that the world 
knows but a portion of their good deeds done. 

Houston's Trusteeship, dating back to 1898 — now twenty- four 
years — is the oldest of the three that is held by '87 — Houston, Fra- 
zier and Pepper — in the University of Pennsylvania. (And inci- 
dentally, does any other one class hold so many?) In addition he 
acted as its treasurer for 19 18- 19. His major business interests are 
reflected in the following list: 

Vice-president, Real Estate Trust Co.; 

Vice-president, Pennsylvania Sugar Co. ; 

President, Nelson Valve Co.; 

University of Pennsylvania Trustee, since 1898; 

Member Standing Committee, Diocese of Pennsylvania; 

President, Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co., since January, 1918; 

Chairman, Phila. Branch, American Com. for Devastated France 
since February, 1921. 

While his name is equally firmly associated with clubs, and as 
follows : 

Germantown Cricket New York Yacht 

Philadelphia Cricket St. Anthony 

Philadelphia Country Rittenhouse 

University Union League 

Philadelphia Corinthian Yacht Cumberland of Portland, Me. 

While in work of institutions we find him one of the Board 
of Managers of the P. E. City Mission, treasurer of the House of 
Rest for the Aged, and vice-president and treasurer of St. Martha's 
House, as well as trustee of the American University Union in 
Europe. 

That his children would be on the University rolls is a cer- 
tainty, and there we find his stepson, Charles Wardell Brown, A.B., 
19 1 3, and the rare and unusual honor and recognition of a degree 
of L L.D. postmortem, extended and given in 1919 at the request 
of the Faculty, to his boy who lies in the soil of France, and who was 
of the Class of 1916; A.B. — Henry Howard Houston 2nd. 

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Not content with simulating Gibraltar, in the solidity and sta- 
bility of his position in the world of business and finance, in civic 
interest and humane work, and in Class virtue, Houston also has 
gone in for the record in the accruing of stripes on his grandfather 
sleeve, with the result that he now wears eight, leads the procession, 
and has on his score about one-sixth of the total number of grand- 
children that has been reported to the Acting Historian of this vera- 
cious chronicle! Witness: 

Beginning March 15, 1915, as follows: Henry Paul Brown, 3d; Mar- 
garet Houston Meigs, Jr.; Edith Corlies Houston Brown, Samuel Houston 
Brown, Jane Perry Meigs, Anne Gertrude Brown, William West Frazier, 4th 
(step-daughter's child) ; Charlotte Shepherd Meigs. 

It is perhaps not however of the deeds of peace, but of the war 
record of what Houston calls his young men, that most warms the 
spirit, in either the telling or the listening. For, as Houston simply 
and pithily says: 

"Every man in my family connection, with the exception of 
one who was a medical student, served the government, during 
the war." 
That record is subjoined, and like that of his grandchild tally, no 
other member's record in '87 quite equals it. 

Houston himself did a lot on civilian committees, and in war 
drives, and in the War Commission of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, 
and on the Board of Trustees of the University Union in Europe. 
While after the Armistice, Mrs. Houston provided a dormitory on 
the floor above the canteen of the Women's League for War Service, 
on Arch Street, for the use of men in service. 

Like Frazier, Houston has been too much occupied to think 
much of his personal pleasures or hobbies, and he does not find enough 
on such lines, upon which to make return. But it is very different 
in his message; for naught but silence, renewed sympathy, and deep 
appreciation of Houston's words of appreciation, but prevails, as 
we read it: 

"On the wall of '87's house in the Dormitories, there has been placed 
a tablet which is, I understand, unique in American university history. The 
thoughtfulness, the kindly sympathy, and the desire to attest their relation- 
ship, which prompted my classmates to erect that tablet in memory of my 
boy and his two companions in arms, sons of '87, and sons of Pennsylvania 
also, will ever fill Mrs. Houston's heart and mine with feelings of deepest 
gratitude." 



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"Charles Wardell Brown (stepson), A.B. 1913, Univ. Penna., in May, 
1916, served in the Camp at Plattsburg. July 4th, joined the 1st Pa. Field 
Artillery, Battery C. then at Mt. Gretna, serving with that unit at El Paso, 
Texas, until he returned and was discharged November, 1916. 

About March 1, 1917, sailed for France on first available vessel after 
sailing of S.S. St. Louis was held up by Government orders. Served about 
one month in American Ambulance, connected with the Hospital at Neuilly, 
France. When America declared war, resigned to return home. 

About May 1, 1917, volunteered in Naval Reserve, in the 1st District, 
being given the rank of machinist's mate, 1st class. In September, 1917, 
promoted to ensign. In January, 1918, joined battleship Texas, which 
almost immediately sailed with our battleship fleet, joining the British 
Grand Fleet in the north of Scotland, early in February, 1918. Remained 
with this fleet until after the armistice, and the surrender of the German 
Fleet, which event he witnessed. Later served several months in the Mer- 
chant Service, making trips between England, Ireland and France. Returned 
home and was discharged, March, 1919. 

Henry Howard Houston, 2nd, A.B. 1916. Day after graduation, vol- 
unteered in Battery C, 1st Pa. Field Artillery, at Phoenixville, Pa., immedi- 
ately going to Mt. Gretna, and soon to El Paso, Texas. Before the return 
of this Battery, and the discharge of the men from the National Service in 
November, with several others of the Battery was promoted to lance corporal. 

In January, 1917, joined the American Ambulance Field Service, being 
one of the original members of Section 12, which went to the front early in 
February, 1917. While serving between Dombasle and Esnes, evacuating 
wounded from Dead Man's Hill and Hill 304, northwest of Verdun, in 
March, 1917, with several other members of Section 12, was awarded the 
Croix de Guerre. In May, 1917, was one of the first fifteen members of the 
American Field Service sent to the French School for Army Transport, at 
Meaux. On completion of course, given honorary rank in the French Army, 
and was made Chief of Section 133, in the Transport Service. Served in 
this capacity about one month, the section under him being employed to take 
artillery ammunition from the rail-head to the front batteries every night 
during the heavy engagement then taking place south of the Chemin des 
Dames. 

Returned home about August 1st to accept appointment upon the staff 
of Brig. General Wm. G. Price, Jr., 53d F. A. Brigade (the Artillery Bri- 
gade formed from the Penna. Militia). August 18, 1917, commissioned 
2nd Lieut, and served at Camp Hancock, Ga., and in Feb., 1918, at Aviation 
School at Fort Sill, Okla. About March 1st, promoted to 1st Lieut. 

The 53d F. A. Brigade landed in England May 30, 1918, almost imme- 
diately going to Camp Meucon, near Vannes, southwest of Brittany. Re- 
mained with Brigade except when sent by General Price to the 28th Di- 
vision Headquarters at the front, about July 12th, then a little south and east 
of Chateau Thierry. The 53d F. A. Brigade joined the Division and went 
into action between the Marne and the Vesle about Aug. 8th. While on 
duty near Arcis-le-Ponsart, about five miles south of Fismes, just before 
dark on the evening of Aug. 18th, was struck by a shell splinter and in- 
stantly killed. His body was placed in the American Cemetery at Suresnes, 
which is on the hill immediately across the Seine from the Bois de Boulogne. 

Charlotte H. Brown (stepdaughter) served in Philadelphia with the 
Emergency Aid, being for some months Captain of one Troop of the Emer- 
gency Aid Aides. Also took an emergency nurse's course from Jan. 1 until 
March 31, 1918, at the University Hospital. When nursing influenza cases 
in the autumn, contracted the disease, but fortunately recovered. 

Sons-in-Law: 

Henry P. Brown, Jr., C. 1909, M. 1912, married Edith C. Houston, 
June 3, 1914. Joined Medical Reserve Corps, 1915. 1917, went to Officers' 

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Training Camp at Oglethorpe, Ga. Appointed ist Lieut, in Medical Corps, 
afterwards promoted to Major. Served with 77th Div. at Camp Upton, L. I., 
from Sept., 1917, until Feb., 1918. Leg broken in automobile accident and 
more or less incapacitated until September. Then at Camp Upton, after- 
wards transferred to Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala., until discharged. 

Robert R. Meigs. Mechanical Engineer, Princeton, '09, and with P. 
R. R. in Altoona Shops and at Pittsburgh ; married Margaret C. Houston, 
Sept. 4, 1915. Volunteered with 19th (Rwy.) Engineers, commissioned ist 
Lieut. This regiment was sent to France in Aug., 1917. Served at Bor- 
deaux, St. Nazaire and Nevers through the period of the war. Promoted 
to Captain. Returned home and was discharged March, 1919. 

William West Frazier, 3RD, married Charlotte Harding Brown, April 
24, 1920. Served in ist Troop, Phila. City Cavalry, for a number of years, 
including the Mexican Border at El Paso, from July, 1916, to January, 1917. 

Fall of 1917, again in Federal Service at Camp Meade. About June 1, 
1918, promoted to 2nd Lieut, and sent to Fort Sill, Okla. There made in- 
structor in the Officers' Training School. October, 1918, promoted to ist 
Lieut., remaining instructor until discharged from the service. 

He is now ist Lieut., ist Troop, Phila., Cavalry." 



OLIVER HUCKEL 

There are many things in life of which generalities convey no 
adequate understanding, and of which the detail must be known to 
make sufficient realization and appreciation. Of such is Huckel's 
splendid record as a worker, a scholar and an able divine. The pages 
of previous histories contain impressive minutiae of Huckel's past 
work, and Huckel has been finely cooperative in giving the Acting 
Historian a real account of his activities since ; and it would seem 
that the most adequate way to rightly record such is to transcribe 
such herewith ad literatim and en toto, which the A. H. is very glad 
to do. The only cryptogram in the matter that Huckel sends — 
other than his handwriting, which happily he sends a key to, consider- 
ately, in the form of a typed decipherization — is his answer to one 
of the questions. We can understand his answer to question No. 
10 (Any deaths?) of "None, thank God," but cannot quite fathom 
the idea of the emphasis in the same answer being made to the in- 
quiry as to the arrival of any grandchildren? 

Received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D.) from the 
University of Pennsylvania, 1907. Annual preacher and lecturer for ten 
years at University of Virginia. Lecturer on literature for several years 
at Western College, Maryland. University preacher at Cornell University, 
and other institutions. In England for four months preaching tour in 1912. 
Incumbent at American Church in Paris for two months. 

Occupations: Completed nearly twenty years of continuous service in 
Baltimore, resigning in 1917, for Sabbatical year and special studies; called 
to English church, but declined; spent a year at Columbia University and 

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Union Seminary in special work on Comparative Religions ; accepted a call 
to a New England pastorate at Greenwich, Conn., "fifty minutes from 
Broadway," the most beautiful and the wealthiest suburb of New York. 
Church occupies commanding site on Boston Post Road overlooking the 
Sound. 

Associations: President of the Congregational Ministers' Association 
of New York and vicinity; vice-president of the Congregational Club of 
New York ; member of the U. P. Alumni Society of Connecticut ; member 
of the Commission of Nineteen, Kansas City, 1913, which made a new creed 
and polity for the Congregational churches of the U. S.; speaker at Na- 
tional Council at Des Moines, 1908, and at International Council at Edin- 
burgh, 1911; director of Pilgrim Mem. Fund ($6,000,000) and member of 
New York Clergy Club. 

Publication: Published translations and interpretations of Wagner's 
Rheingold (1907) ; Valkyrie (1908) ; Siegfried (1910) ; Dusk of the Gods 
(1911) ; Mastersingers of Nuremberg (1912) ; Tristan and Isolda (1913) ; 
Rienzi (1914) ; Flying Dutchman (1914) ; Richard Wagner: The Man and 
His Work, a new life from the literary point of view (191 5) ; Mental Med- 
icine, — Johns Hopkins Lecture (1909) ; Spiritual Surgery (1912) ; Habit of 
Health (1922) ; Through England with Tennyson, a record of pilgrimages 
to the Poet's homes and haunts (1913) ; A Dreamer of Dreams, a new life 
of William Penn (1916) ; Four Epochs of World Conquest (1913) ; The 
Thorn-Tree that Bloomed at Christmas (1915); and numerous pamphlets 
on religious and educational matters. Three other books are now ready 
for the press. 

War Work: Gave many Liberty Loan and Red Cross addresses; 
preached sermons on the duty of the hour; gave addresses to departing 
troops and returning troops, and camp addresses ; published patriotic poems 
on the war; also "Our Heroic Dead," poem at the dedication of our war 
tablet at U. of P., and "Praise for Famous Men," poem at the dedication 
of George Whitefield statue at U. of P. 

"Tench Tilghman's Ride," poem on exploit of an early U. of P. grad- 
uate, published by the State of Maryland, and sent by the Governor of 
Maryland to the Panama Exposition, and a copy hung in each of the 14,000 
public schools of Maryland. 

Two boys in Junior Officer Training Corps during the war and in Boy 
Scout work, — not old enough for other kinds of service ; wife in Red Cross, 
and Child Welfare Work. 

University of Pennsylvania: For 15 years secretary and director of 
Maryland Alumni, University of Pennsylvania. For many years have been 
a director of the Christian Association of the Univ. of Penna. Member of 
the Univ. of Penna. Alumni Society of Connecticut. 

Other Institutions: Keep in touch with Central High School of Phil- 
adelphia (79th Class) and with Oxford University, England; with Church 
Peace Union; with Church Unity Foundation; with Social Service League 
of New York and the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. 



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Mental Pleasures: Preaching (not always practising) ; lecturing to 
the Boston Browning Society (at intervals). 

Physical Pleasures: Long country walks, — "Darby and Joan" together, 
— wonderful country here. 

Hobbies: Rare old books, — early printed books and illuminated manu- 
scripts. 

Vices: Poetry-making, — incessant, and often execrable. 

Message : 

Best greetings to all the dear fellows left above ground, and "Hail 
immortals" to those who are gone. Busy as ever this year, and feel as well 
as ever. Digestion good, and teeth still sound and perfect — all of them. 
Have completed 30 years in the ministry, — a very happy life. Hope as use- 
ful as it has been happy and busy. Published this year my 24th book. These 
have been a pleasant diversion. About 85,000 have been circulated among 
the unwary. "The Dreamer of Dreams" tells some new things about Billy 
Penn. "The Habit of Health" (this year) guarantees life for a hundred 
years. Haven't yet realized my full ambitions of doing some real credit to 
Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, but will still peg away 
along this line to the end. Haec Olim Meminisse Juvabit! 

WILLIAM LOCKHART JONES 

Jones holds the chair of dentistry in the Class, he being the only 
one of that profession in it, and he still continues to fill it in Phila- 
delphia as ably as he fills his patients' teeth, or eliminates molar 
troubles whether molecular or great. 

But, poor chap, he needed to have extracted from his own head 
a nasty trouble about the time of replying to his question sheet, which 
he gamely undertook to yet make out ; for read of the then condition : 

"I am suffering acute agony from an abscessed ear ; outside of this, my 
health has been — D — n that ear ; my son will have to finish this ! 

(His son) — "No article referring to my father should be permitted to 
end in this fashion 'has been.' In the past ten years, father has taken up 
squash and golf with his sons and ten years from now I expect to see him 
play baseball and football with his grandchildren." 

The grandchildren in question — unless it be more exact to say, 
without question — are : 

Lois Marguerite; July 5, 1916. 
William Brendel ; April 19, 1919. 
Carolyn Griscom; January 12, 1921. 

and may they all make grandfather extend himself in 1932, but 
without a puff, in every bout of ball! 

Jones says that he finds his indoor diversion in whist and out- 
doors in golf and crap-shooting. On closer inspection of a blotted 

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first letter of this last word, it may read "trap shooting." As a 
hobby, he pleads fishing, and poor old "smoking" is again trotted 
out as a supposed weakness or vice. 

FRANK JAMES KEELEY 

Keeley is a deep thinking mining engineer and scientist, and 
the Acting Historian thought that he knew everything on such lines, 
especially judging from his list of societies below. But now he doesn't 
think so at all, since he had high glee in telling to Keeley what 
certain mystic circles in the woods of Ridley Creek hereabouts, were. 
Surmised as traces of Indian merry-go-rounds or sacrificial archae- 
ological what-nots, Keeley and other wiseacres were stumped, until 
the writer pointed out that they were the "fairy rings" of prosaic 
charcoal-burning pits or mounds, of 1810, for an old-time iron works 
near by. 

Keeley trails Stone in membership of long-named societies. 
Some of them are the Royal Microscopical of London; the Academy 
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, wherein he is of the council 
and curator of the Vaux Collection of Minerals, and director of the 
Mineralogical Section and conservator of the Biological Microscopi- 
cal Sections. Keeley frequently gets his thoughts into print, and some 
of his later ones are: 

"Microscopical Image Formation" ; 

"Micro-spectroscopic Observations" ; 

"Notes on Some Ignaceous Rocks at Ogunquit, Maine, and 

Pigeon Cove, Mass." 
"Polarization and Color Effects, Exhibited by Certain Diatoms"; 
Etc, etc, ETC. 

His hobby is microscopy; his vice, he himself says, is meanness 

towards the doctors, his bills to them for forty years aggregating 

less than ten dollars. So that his tennis and outdoor research and 

his indoor microscopic hunts have at any rate paid well in dividends 

of health. The following cross section of Keeley 's way of living, 

best illumines his life and view points: 

"Was at a loss to know how to answer some of the latter questions, as 
the correctness of answers would depend on the season. After twenty-five 
years of unusually strenuous business life, I still find similar activity in my 
scientific employment during spring and autumn. The summer vacation 
in Maine, involves some changes, but here in Florida during the winter, I 
soon revert to a feral condition. On the river much of the time, often 

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attired only in a bathing suit, in a district sufficiently approaching a wilder- 
ness that sometimes no human being may be seen during hours spent in the 
boat or in walking on the ocean beach or forest trails, the idea of ever 
returning to the turmoil of a big city becomes hateful, until the thought of 
'87's Reunion calls me back to civilization." 

EDWARD FULBISTER KENNEY 

Kenney continues his work in steel; and while his exchequer has 
been graced with the names of such foremost companies as the Cam- 
bria Steel Company, the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company, 
etc., who shall say that they have not been graced as well with the 
name of '87's Kenney! 

As a metallurgical engineer, Kenney was with the first above- 
named company from 1907 until 19 17, when he went with the latter 
named, with present headquarters in Philadelphia. 

That he is deep in the technical ranks, memberships and associa- 
tions, may be seen by his societies: 

Iron & Steel Institute of Great Britain ; 

Vice-President, Association American Steel Manufacturers ; 

American Iron & Steel Institute; 

American Society Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; 

American Society for Testing Materials ; 

American Railway Engineers Association; 

Society of Automobile Engineers ; and the 

Overbrook Golf Club. 

as well as is such technique of profession evidenced by patents in his 
name, from 19 14 to 1920, dealing with the manufacture of steel and 
steel products, numbers 1114005, 1137144, 1205998 and 1363601. 
Here is hoping that his dollars return may be as many as the aggre- 
gate of such numbers! 

During the war, Kenney was more than busy at Johnstown, 
Coatesville and Philadelphia, in producing steel for military pur- 
poses under the most difficult and trying conditions, wherein, — like 
Karl's fountain pens — a perfectly good disposition, he says, was per- 
manently ruined. 

In 1914, April 18th, a son, Edward Jr., arrived; and in 1920, 
Kenney's daughter, Vera, entered Wellesley. Kenney 's roaring fur- 
nace that might be, as to his foibles, pleasures, vices and hobbies, 
evidently has a broken tuyere and is out of blast, for as to data of 
such, he gives us an output similar to a steel works that is shut down, 
viz; nothing! 

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GEORGE SLOMAN KETCHEM 

No reply. 

LOUIS JOHN KOLB 

No reply. 

JOHN PHILIP KRECKER 

Krecker, still in Philadelphia, is another of those who has the 

virtue of compressing much into few words, but who does not give 

the Class Acting Historian much about which to write. He says: 

"Have excellent health; not been away from business one day 
since 1912 on account of sickness; have prospered. Lovely wife — 
two children — son and daughter; babies arrived and each have 
their own home. Faithful in church work." 

We are not perfectly sure as to the babies, the writing being 
a shade obscure, but as it is a good probability, we will take the 
risk of thus transcribing. 

All good citizenship, and further rounded out by Krecker's 
boy having enlisted in the navy at Cape May, with later due and 
honorable discharge. Krecker holds membership in Beta Theta 
Psi, and finds his relaxation in a little golfing or automobiling. He 
does not mention whether he is still in the same line of wholesale 
groceries or not, as stated in the 19 12 history, nor does the tele- 
phone directory so disclose, — but we take it that like the babies, it 
is the probability and a fairly safe surmise. 

THEOPHILUS KUELLING 

Kuelling is now in Buffalo, N. Y. By previous accounts he had 
been west, pursuing his work of civil and mining engineering. That 
was followed in 191 1- 17 by the promotion and organization of the 
St. Francois Lead Company, Leadwood, Missouri, in which he did 
important work. That in turn, by being in charge of mining and 
engineering in the fire clay industry at Vandalia, Missouri, 19 17-2 1. 
From there Kuelling removed to Buffalo, where he is now in the 
Bureau of Engineers, in that second and big metropolis of the Em- 
pire State. 

Three young Kuellings have arrived, all boys. Leighton T., 
came July 31, 1902; John Hugh, December 19, 1907, and George 



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Lee, August 22, 19 10. Leigh ton is now a Sophomore at Buffalo 
Technical High School. 

Kuelling's landing in Buffalo, where he won out over eighteen 
competitors, and his pleasure in being much nearer to '87's head- 
quarters than heretofore, warms the editor's heart with pride and 
joy, and he takes the liberty of inserting Kuelling's own account of it : 

"While living in Missouri, I had a desire to go back east. My mother 
lived in Buffalo, entirely alone at the age of 89. My desire to be with her 
and on account of my boys, hoping to be able to send them to the U. of P., 
caused me to remove to Buffalo. On my arrival, a friend told me that a 
civil service examination would take place for the second highest position 
in the Engineering Department of the City of Buffalo. There were eighteen 
applicants. I don't know how I did it, but I was number one on the list, 
was appointed and am in this work. I am nearer the Class of '87 and look 
forward with great pleasure to our next Reunion." 

Kuelling's chiefest mortal pleasure is a concert. His diversions, 
boating on Lake Erie. His vices he rates as many and so coequal 
that he cannot pick out one as outshining another, while his particu- 
lar hobby is: 

"Trying to annihilate the St. Lawrence Ship Canal project. Am mak- 
ing a report of my experience on the Mississippi River. Have data that 
proves the project to be a failure." 

THOMAS LOVE LATTA 

When the draft horses of the Class of '87 rest from their labors 
and go for their final reward and are exhibited and petted in the 
stalls of the hereafter, blue ribbons on their no longer champing 
bits and others in their braided tails, Latta will probably occupy 
stall number one, with a cart load of ribbons on his bit or bridle 
and an extra braid in his metaphorical tail, if his record of Class 
virtues and practical and constant help is anything to go by! Having 
scored one hundred long ago, in energy, force, drive; in example, 
work, stimulus; in enthusiasm, effectiveness and results in '87's 
behalf, his registration needle simply hangs around the one hundred 
mark on the dial ever since. So well known is this, that as a matter 
of fact it is generally believed that the Class of '87 is Latta's chief 
occupation and business and that his firm of Armstrong & Latta is 
but a subterfuge, and a poor second. However, Thomas L. goes 
through the form, and if a Class contribution or other matter turns 
up, he goes out and takes another contract or two ; sufficient to meet 

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the current needs. And no small one may it be, if the construction 
of the launchways and wharves for the New York Shipbuilding 
Company during the war period for instance, is any criterion. 

Married in 1893, Latta has only four-tenths the output of the 
next generation, that Bailey has, for instance; but of such vintages of 
sundry years, and amongst the quartette, we defy anyone to produce 
a bonnier daughter than Elizabeth Hood, whose singing, ever gener- 
ously extended, has endeared her to all of Philadelphia and a large 
part of the adjacent United States. During the war, she made many 
and many a khaki-clad lad or a navy gob, forget his mess, his home 
and mother, and in the opinion of the Acting Historian, the natural- 
ness and ease, deftness, fetchingness and sassiness, with which she 
unassumingly yet most capably, renders an old time song or ballad, 
and her capacity for getting into the hearts of her auditors, is un- 
matched in Philadelphia. 

Latta's son, Thomas Hood, is U. of P., 1920, and in the war 
was for fourteen months in the 311th M. T. C. 

Latta himself is a committee chairman, Presbyterian Students, 
U. of P. Y. M. C. A ; a trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital, Phila- 
delphia, and vice-president of the Philadelphia Sanitarium, and take 
it all in all — coupled with his non-recording of any vices, outside of 
the sundry presidencies — we think that he has a strangle hold on the 
position of fine citizen with no foolishness, and a serene front seat 
in the hereafter. And no '87 man will better deserve such latter. 

CHARLES ROBERT LEE 

No reply. 

JOSEPH SIEGMUND LEVIN 

Levin continues in the practice of law in Philadelphia. He is 
a member of the Lawyers' Club and of the State Bar Association, 
and during the war period was a member of the Legal Advisory 
Board. 

Closely competing are his non-professional but none the less 
important interests in the direction of local politics of the better 
sort, in which he has taken a deep interest for years. Of such, it has 
been written by one familiar with the facts: 



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"He has been active in political work, on the independent side, since 
1905 and has been the leader in the independent forces in his home ward, the 
20th, Philadelphia, in every state and city campaign since that time. He is 
perhaps the only man in Philadelphia who has represented the same ward 
in the City Committee of the several independent parties, from the City Party 
in 1906 to the Town Meeting Party of 1917-20. He was also a member of 
the State Committee of the Keystone Party." 

As Levin reports no twins, children, grandchildren or other 
such collateral appurtenances, we take it that he is still wedded to his 
profession and career, rather than to the flesh; as recorded in 1907. 

Levin keeps his cobwebs down by reading, the theatre and a lot 
of walking. As to hobbies and weaknesses, he says that he knows 
it is shameful, in these days of scientific efficiency experts, to say that 
he has none, but truth must prevail. His message to the Class is a 
fine one: 

"I have found happiness in doing each day its appointed task, be it 
big or little, as well as lay within my power, with deep gratefulness to 
Pennsylvania for her precept and culture, and to '87 for example and in- 
spiration. I rejoice that I have never outgrown the optimism of youth, 
but with that 'faith that in the soul still lives however oft 'tis slain,' stand 
ready with confidence and assurance to face the coming day." 

JULIUS LOUIS LEWIN 

No reply. 

WALTER RODMAN LINCOLN 

For a number of years Lincoln practiced medicine, but he re- 
tired a few years ago and has since been living in Florida, at a town 
with the unique name of Cocoa — which seems like an appellation 
of high Volsteadian flavor. Lincoln's health has not been good 
and he has had to take things a bit easy. A son has come, James 
Capehart, September 13, 19 12, and his boy, local activities and work 
around his orange grove afford his greatest pleasures and occu- 
pations. Extracts from a recent letter, however, will show that 
'87's representative in the Florida district is nevertheless doing his 
local bit. That the hand of Class fellowship is extended him, and with 
all deep best wishes from every man-jack of us, is a surety! 

"I have been a semi-invalid for a number of years and my mode of 
living has had to be adjusted to such condition and, in consequence, is as 
smooth and unexciting as I can make it. I have prospered very modestly 
as far as this 'world's gear' is concerned, so that there are rafts of things 
that I would like to do that I do not. 

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I do not practice medicine here, but am the local health officer without 
salary and find that that gives me quite a little semi-medical work to attend 
to, at times. 

Altogether I have a very happy time of it and I feel that I am of con- 
siderable use in the community in which I have cast my lot. I guess I shall 
have to be, as I have grown to be content with it. 

I would rather like to see my old classmates of '87, but I very rarely 
get north of Jacksonville. Please give my best and cheeriest greeting to 
them all." 

WALTER BIDDLE LOWRY 

From the west cometh a breezy return from Lowry, whose 
primal theological work of his first graduate years, tapering off thro' 
a career of organ building, has ended in his present occupation of real 
estate operations and activities in Pasadena, California. We can 
forgive all else but the abandonment of the organ business, for what 
wots it for the Class to have in its ranks a trained, experienced, 
professional organ man, skilled and competent no doubt, to play 
paeans of organic melody in the ultimate hereafter, in tribute to '87's 
virtues, if he goes and chucks it? Is it quite clubby? 

Lowry ended his association with the Hall Pipe Organ Com- 
pany, of New Haven, in 19 19, upon removal to California. In ad- 
dition to being in the real estate business, he is also deputy assessor 
of Los Angeles county. 

His Delta Psi membership continues; he is a district department 
inspector of Spanish War Veterans, and belongs to the Military 
Order of Foreign Wars, and is in several Masonic organizations. 

In 1912 — June 16th — he married Harriet E. Myers, and a 
daughter, Jane Montgomery, was born, November 29, 19 13. His 
participation in war work was on the lines of Red Cross and Liberty 
Loan drives. 

Lowry 's diversion is in literature upon the subject of the Mohave 
and the Colorado desert; outdoors, hiking on the aforsaid deserts 
and in the Sierra Madre mountains. His hobbies are fishing and 
stamp collecting. 

In his weakness, Lowry differs from Magilton, Carpenter and 
others who flagrantly and unblushingly wear naked domes, and let 
others worry about it, for he says his chiefest vice is worrying about 
his baldness; he admonishes every '87 man to abjure the wearing 
of a toupee, and he declines to send his photograph. We had not 

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suspected that a California real estate operator would have a soul so 
sensitive! Lowry's message: 

"Physically I have been sick a great deal during the past ten years, 
which, in spite of the profession I formerly followed, leads to much pro- 
fanity; but no one minds that out here. However, I have cut it out after 
I received a line from Senator Pepper, addressed to me as 'Reverend.' 

I haven't changed at all ; I look younger than I did, except for my hair." 

WILLIAM McLEAN 

Whatever other virtues comprise the constellation encircling 
McLean's head, ever in the mind of the Acting Historian will remain 
the fact that McLean's return was the first to be received. So tender 
will be the pen of comment, nor will any vitriolic pen be unleashed. 

McLean continues in the Philadelphia district as a contractor 
and civil engineer, to say nothing as an active and helpful and co- 
operative '87 man in everything that may be up. He still has the same 
wife as in '87 according to his own words, but a lack of children 
debars the usual card indexing and cross reference entries to all 
such — let alone any grandchildren — in his case. He finds a lot of 
interest in the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia; that society 
that perhaps in these prohibition days, is the most conspicuous ex- 
ample of that illogical, pitiful and unbelievable condition, of the 
Scotchless Scotch. McLean continues a Mason. 

During the war, McLean was superintendent of Plant Protec- 
tion at the Philadelphia terminal of the Quartermaster's Department, 
at the foot of Oregon street, until the Armistice. In this capacity 
he was chief of police, fire marshall, chief of sanitation and general 
Pooh Bah. Some of the duties in the sanitation side, in this estab- 
lishment of a coeducational character so to speak, were of human 
interest and may be whispered in the ear of anyone curious and in- 
terrogating McLean, but are quite unprintable here, this being a 
strictly family publication and no pink weekly. McLean's wife also 
worked in Canteen and Red Cross. 

McLean goes along in his same quiet way. He decries his 
ability to throw verbal flowers even to such an easy objective as '87, 
and minimizes his good daily work, his citizenship and his helps to 
others. He just says that he has been pretty well and has no com- 
plaints to make. But we have reason to believe that those in the St. 
Andrews and other associations in which he works and aids and helps 

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and have been the beneficiaries of such, would throw McLean quite 
a number of flowers, were all the facts known. 

CHRISTOPHER MAGEE 

No reply. 

JAMES FRANCIS MAGEE 

Magee was for a number of years a broker in merchandise and 
food stuffs, but has since retired and settled down into the regular 
occupation of a chess crank, sharp, bug, enthusiast and expert. We 
have reason to suspect that most of the treatises on chess since the time 
of Confucius were in reality written by Magee; that while climbing 
a barbed wire fence, he can also conduct seventeen and a half con- 
tests in parallel ; that he has a floating chess board upon which to play 
in his tub; that he has memorized chess equivalents for each of the 
personages of the Bible, so that when apparently following the church 
service, he can yet be constructing a chess problem, and that he will 
not eat mashed potatoes unless moulded into the forms of Kings, 
Queens, Bishops, etc. Anyway, he is some chess player. Color is 
lent to these beliefs from his editorship of the publication of the Good 
Companion Chess Club, that wisely gave him that job in 19 13 and 
his being an international secretary of the Problem Club. He also 
carries as an auxiliary and side line, membership in the Franklin Chess 
Club, and such office as he has may be best located by any one seeking 
him going to the Musical Arts Club of Philadelphia and to the chess 
tables therein. To keep tuned up to this indoor sport as above, he 
mentally toys a little at bridge, or whacks a golf ball about, at the 
Merion Cricket Club, until the call of chess again hits him. Then, 
when some men carry pocket flasks, or paper of many sheets to the 
inch, in their pockets, Magee pulls out a pocket chess board, squats 
on the green and essays to crack another problem; while the caddy, 
speechless in unfathomed amazement, curls up on the grass and goes 
into a long undisturbed sleep. 

Magee has been a consistent and active and loyal worker for 
'87. It is again to his efforts, that the numerous pictures of our- 
selves as we now are — "as is," as the department stores would rate 
us — in this present issue are due. And those of the Class who have 
not contributed, best know what a task is the collection such pictures 
of our cherubic phizzes. 

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In 1913, Magee's son died; James Francis Magee III. It was 
a hard thing for Magee to meet — and to no one does the silent hand- 
clasp of sympathy go out more than to fine Jimmy Magee of '87. 

ALBERT LEE MAGILTON 

As one of the metaphorical tall sycamores, Magilton continues, 
but residing not on the Wabash but on the sweet slopes of Crum 
Creek, in the vicinity of Philadelphia. Likewise does he continue 
as also previously reported as proprietor and manager of the Edward 
L. Hand Company, of Philadelphia, which the telephone directory 
illuminates as "nails." Of such daily occupation Magilton seems to 
think — or at least dwell upon in his return, — not at all, but rather 
does he lean towards the personal side. 

Travel is his chiefest delight — perhaps now intensified since the 
death of his wife, Gertrude H., October 15, 191 8. It is his hobby. 
As he reminds, "Nothing so widens and lightens our lot as travel. It 
lifts us out of our own narrow sphere into all the chances and 
changes of human destiny." That that carries with it, very readily, 
his mental pleasures of languages and romance is conveniently logical 
and natural. Magilton's health continues fine, so that he has to vent 
his energy in chopping wood, like some others of the class (What a 
contest might be arranged at a Class reunion!), or in chasing across 
country in an automobile. He denies that — from cause and effect — 
that the twain of occupations produces the health, but that the health 
necessitates the twain. He is an ardent member of the Keystone 
Automobile Club, and his name is on the rolls, as well, of the Manu- 
facturers' Club, the Union Lodge No. 121, F. & A. M., and the 
Philadelphia Consistory. But "Magilt's" own letter will better tell 
of him of the present than can any further comments of the Acting 
Historian : 

"In my endeavors to write a worthy response to this request I made 
such elaborate preliminary that I am like the personage Washington Irving 
described, who, in order to jump over a certain mountain, took a three-mile 
run for a good start, — but at the end of the run was so greatly undone as 
to be forced to stop for repose. Just so am I and the message is yet to be 
framed. I am greatly chagrined to note that I cannot give any material in 
response to most of your requests. My life has not been bent in the direc- 
tion you indicate, but for all that I have managed to do my part. My 
health has been excellent and I have been blessed with very favorable sur- 
roundings. My work has been agreeable and prosperous, with enough 

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leisure to permit me to do a reasonable amount of globe trotting, which as 
I have above stated is my chief hobby. I have never forgotten Prof. Bark- 
er's last injunction, "Never despise any legitimate knowledge, for some day 
you will find use for it," and so I have accumulated a goodly stock of 
miscellaneous material which proves serviceable at the desired time. Thanks 
to our Alma Mater I learned how to study, and that to my mind is the be- 
ginning of all wisdom." 



ROBERT STEPHEN MAISON 

Maison graduated in medicine, as we all recall, and his work 
since has been in and around Chester, Pennsylvania. 

Some of our distinguished medical lights of the present day so 
specialize on the last half ounce of the vile carcass of the human 
body that it is difficult at times to find what as boys we used to view 
as the "old-fashioned doctor." To those seeking such, try "Old Doc. 
Maison." What is better evidence of the type than his terse, pro- 
fane but tending-to-business-answer description that Maison gives 
as to his occupation : "One damn call after another ; two damns for 
night calls."! 

Three of his children — and whether that is thirty or one hundred 
percent of the total (Bailey's score of ten being taken as the perfect 
one) the Acting Historian does not know; but he does know that 
Maison's youngsters lined up when the bugle blew, in as fine a way 
as he describes his night calls. George L. K. was in Navy Base 
Hospital No. 5, at Brest, France; Elizabeth Milne was a dietitian 
at No. 5 and Robert S., Jr., was in the Citizen Corps at Chester. 
One grandchild is in Maison's collection — so far — : small Francis 
Vostelle Maison, having arrived March 21, 1920. 

Maison reads, farms, reads some more, and is too busy to be 
vicious, hence reports no vices. He gets to '87's meetings frequently, 
thus showing how good habits can accompany throughout and adorn 
life. 

GEORGE LEIDLIE MARTIN 

Martin's work since leaving college has been in railroad and 
civil engineering lines. He still so continues and is occupied at pres- 
ent as district surveyor and regulator in Philadelphia. He is also 
a member of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia. But beyond 
that we become lost in the realm of surmise and speculation, for 

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friend Martin volunteers nothing further as to his ten years activi- 
ties, his joys and his habits, or his points of view or what he thinks 
of anything, '87 included. For all of which we are sorry. 

WILLIAM PAUL MARTIN 

No reply. 

DION MARIA MARTINEZ 

Martinez frankly admits that his previous and early career has 
been relatively a void; that a slave to wanderlust he roamed afar, 
and that only in recent times has that been overcome, that the error 
of such ways has been rectified and that true happiness has been found 
by settling in Philadelphia and getting and keeping in touch with its 
many interests — and incidentally in getting married. 

Martinez is now principal assistant engineer on construction 
of Philadelphia subways, and since 19 19 he has been a member of the 
Society of Municipal Engineers. 

His marriage in October, 191 5, was to Edythe Myers. His 
son, William Kern — by his first wife — was in the war, but in what 
form cannot here be stated, as an expected statement as to his record, 
etc., has, at this date, not yet arrived. 

Martinez is a director of the Mavis Club of Philadelphia and 
his other pleasures, etc., he expresses thusly: 
Mental : metaphysics. 
Physical : automobiling and walking. 
Hobby: flower gardening. 
Vice: cigarettes, but well under control; 

thereby differing from Solomon, as to his wives. 

Martinez sends this, his message: 

"Greetings, with the hope that I may see you all next June. Ever since 
the wanderlust that gripped me for so many years was subdued and I 
returned to our city, this happiness has been denied me by unwelcomed 
circumstances and conditions. Let us hope that these will have vanished 
for the glorious 35th bringing together of our youthful ardor and vigor, so 
that the ever present memory of my Classmates may be materialized into 
pleasurable and yearned-for intercourse." 

JAMES MILLIKEN 

For years Milliken was in the Pennsylvania R. R. system as one 
readily recalls. That worthy but perhaps not exciting career was 

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followed by his war work- — as below — and after that, in 19 19, 
he became president of the Industrial Car Manufacturers Institute, 
of Pittsburg and New York. Early in 1922 he became president 
of the Pittsburg Testing Laboratory that makes a specialty of and 
does a large business in investigations, tests, experiments, etc., in 
a large field of industrial occupations, and there Milliken is at pres- 
ent. The scope and character of his interests may be agreeably 
noted by a glance at his membership list: 

American Railway Association, Mechanical Section ; 

New York Railroad Club (President 1916-17) ; 

Railroad Club of Pittsburgh; 

Franklin Institute of Philadelphia; 

Society of Mechanical Engineers of Western Pennsylvania ; 

American Society for Testing Materials ; 

American Mining Congress ; 

Duquesne Club, of Pittsburgh, etc., etc. 
Milliken, aside from his war record, is also out of the ordinary 
in having had the same daughter twice. The Acting Historian is 
advised of her birth — Margaretha Mytinger — in the current return, 
on August 6, 19 12. He also notes, by page 86, of the 19 12 history, 
that she was born also on August 6, 1909. But then was '86 always 
trustworthy ? At any rate it would seem that she was born ; and the 
having two birth years may be very convenient, upon which to al- 
ternate in the future, when from passports, jury service, love sparring 
or other motives, she may prefer to use one rather than the other. 

We at last have found out what or who won the war. We 
have been assured that coal did it; that oil did it; that man power 
did it; that money did it; that forty other things each did it. But 
having read Milliken's record, we now know that our own Milliken 
did it! At anyrate, one almost thinks so as he reads the account of 
the mass work, the splendid service, the importance of the things en- 
trusted to him, and none of us do other than take off our hat to him 
for such ; with an echo repeat, for his lusty son, whose record is 
also noted below: 

"On May 9, 1917, Col. Milliken, who was then a civilian and Super- 
intendent of Motive Power of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was relieved from 
his duties in that organization by General Atterbury, who was then Vice- 
President of the Pennsylvania, and asked to assist Col. Deakyne, Command- 
ing Officer of the 19th Engineers, in recruiting a regiment of locomotive 
repairmen for use in France. 

On July 17, 1917, he was appointed Mechanical Aide to Mr. S. M. 
Felton, Director General Military Railways, and was located in Washing- 

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ton, D. C. At this time he was given charge of the design, specifications, 
purchase, production, and shipment, of locomotives, cars, shop and engine- 
house equipment, and mechanical appliances. 

On June 21, 1918, he was placed in charge of all the engineering and 
purchasing work on railway equipment and track materials. 

On October 18, 1918, he was commissioned directly from civil life in 
the Corps of Engineers with the rank of Colonel. In this capacity he car- 
ried on the same duties and in addition had, throughout the entire period of 
the service with the War Department, made the selection of all of the offi- 
cers in mechanical regiments or battalions that were sent overseas. 

Up to the time of the signing of the Armistice he had purchased and had 
under production orders covering 3750 standard gauge locomotives; over 
91,000 freight cars; 1500 narrow gauge locomotives, and 6000 narrow 
gauge cars for use at the front; approximately 900 locomotive, gantry, and 
traveling, cranes ; approximately 750,000 tons of rails and material ; the 
equipment for general locomotive and car repair shops and enginehouses ; 
and floating equipment for use in the harbors of France. 

Col. Milliken remained in the service after the signing of the Armistice 
in order to arrange for the cancellation of orders for vast quantities of 
materials which were under production and which were not required. 

He was honorably discharged from the service April 29, 1919. On July 
14, 1919, Bastile Day, he was made an Officer in the Loyal Legion d'Hon- 
neur, presentation being made by Monsieur Jusserand at the French Em- 
bassy, Washington, D. C. 

Samuel J. Milliken: Son of James Milliken: Enlisted as quarter- 
master, Philadelphia Navy Yard, April 24, 1917; transferred to U. S. S. 
M. S. 3, June 2, 1917; promoted to warrant officer (boatswain), June 2, 1917; 
transferred to U. S. S. E. J. McKeever; transferred to U. S. S. Rehobeth, 
July 23, 1917. U. S. S. Rehobeth was sunk at sea, while engaged in convoy 
service, off the coast of France. Milliken was cited for gallantry and rec- 
ommended for promotion on account of voluntarily returning to the sinking 
ship, after the crew had been rescued, in an endeavor to make fast a cable. 
Transferred to U. S. S. James, October 12, 1917, and for ten months was 
engaged in mine sweeping operations off the coast of France. Transferred 
to U. S. S. Astoria, August 17, 1918, and on this vessel was engaged in 
Trans-Atlantic operations. Commissioned ensign (deck duties) in the Naval 
Auxiliary Reserves — U. S. Naval Reserve Force — September 24, 1918. Two 
gold service chevrons — authorized January 1, 1919. Released from active 
service April 22, 1919." 

WILLIAM TENNENT MOFFLY 

Moffly continues on in the even tenor of his ways in Philadel- 
phia, making little noise, but ever a quiet, helpful working member 
of '87 — pushing along its Reunions and giving a hand every time that 
he is asked. 

He still lives at Allen Lane, Mount Airy, Philadelphia, but 
beyond that gratifies us with precious little else in the way of in- 
formation about himself. Yet how pride does ooze out, for he does 

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confess to having joined the order of the Growing Group of Grand- 
iose Grandfathers, for he lists — in an otherwise blank sheet: 

William Jasper Nicolls ; 

John deZouche Nicolls; and 

Edmund K. Moffly, all as having arrived, and that there is 
a William Moffly, Junior, whose college is not yet decided upon ; 
that his son was a first lieutenant in the 310th Field Artillery in 
the war and that a daughter was in the Red Cross. This is all to 
the good, in the way of what we like to learn about Moffly these 
current times, but we could have stood ten times as much. 

JAMES ALAN MONTGOMERY 

If any one word would best describe Montgomery the Acting 
Historian would say that that word would be "scholar" ; for as such 
he vigorously continues a hectic and fervid career, getting in, the 
same A. H. would say, — if he ever permitted himself to use slang 
(sic) — up to his neck and deeper and deeper in that line of occupa- 
tion. And in Montgomery's case, that is some depth! 

The histories of 1907 and 19 12 well record the fruits and 
character of his early explorations and excavations, in religious, lit- 
erary, archaeological, Semitic and other fields of research; and since 
then Montgomery has simply worked harder and better than ever, 
on the same subjects. He was advanced to Professorship of Semitic 
Languages at the University of Pennsylvania in 19 12, while also con- 
tinuing as Professor of Old Testament in the Philadelphia Divinity 
School. In 19 19 and 1920 he served on the faculty of the Summer 
School of Theology, Middletown, Conn., and in 19 16 he did the 
same at the University of Chicago. His present associations are: 

The Lenape Club, the Faculty Club of the University, the Phi 
Beta Kappa Association of Philadelphia, American Oriental Society 
(editor since 19 16), Society of Biblical Literature (editor to 19 14; 
president 191 8), Archaeological Institute of America and the Amer- 
can Association of College Professors. Montgomery has been im- 
portantly president of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 
incorporated in 1921, continuing the American School of Oriental 
Research in Jerusalem. This organization is now twenty years old 
and prospects the establishment of a school in Bagdad, in addition 
to the school in Jerusalem of which it has charge. In publications 
Montgomery continues to work, as witness: 

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"Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur," published by the University 
Museum, 1913. 

Editor of "Religions of the Past and Present," a series of lectures de- 
livered by members of the faculty, Lippincott, 1918, and contributor of the 
chapter on the Hebrew Religion. 

Contributor of papers to the following: Journal of American Oriental 
Society, Journal of Biblical Literature, Jewish Quarterly Review, Journal of 
Archaeology, Menorah Journal, The Expositor, Expository Times, Oriental- 
istische Literaturzeitung, American Journal of Semitic Languages. Con- 
tributed to the University Lectures, 1915-16, "Jerusalem the Holy City," and 
1919-20, "Flavius Josephus the Jewish Historian." 

Editor of Journal Biblical Literature to 1914 and at present editor of 
Journal of American Oriental Society. 

During the war Montgomery did a lot of work at the camps, 
in particular at Camp Meade, where he was in charge of the Epis- 
copal Church establishment. His son, James A., Jr., is slated for 
Princeton, '25. 

Montgomery continues as a monument of work, industry and 
study, in all of which he shines like a lighthouse, in the character of 
its conscientious and finely done work. And his relation with the 
Class is just the same, finely in interest and finely doing any of its 
work in which he may participate. When quizzed by his class mates 
as to his hobby, he is apt to answer "Oriental archaeology" and as 
this at anyrate should enable him to better decipher twentieth cen- 
tury laundry marks — certainly of archaeological origin — we suppose 
it is all right. He pleads his rights as an American citizen, — of not 
having to incriminate himself, — in declining to answer as to his 
vices, and he sends this as his message: 

"The past ten years have been the most interesting and the most profit- 
able in my life. I suppose that one is really living as long as he is growing. 
It is a sobering thought though, under the XlXth Amendment, to think that 
we are now, as Job said, "the generation," although if we have any conceit 
about this, our sons will soon take it out of us. But still it is jolly to know 
that there is something to do and a job to work at and to hand on a bit 
improved to the next generation." 

WILLIAM ROMAINE NEWBOLD 

Equally deep in the unintelligible to the average man in the 
street, neck and neck with Montgomery as a scholar, an able Professor 
at the University, a loyal '87 man, and an all around literary ath- 
lete, comes Newbold. What a pair he and Montgomery make on 
the west side of the Schuylkill, in the highbrow! 



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For the past two years or so Newbold has been particularly — 
and successfully, mark ye — occupied in the XXXXX Roger Bacon 
cipher M.S. (Whether the first word, represented here by the 
X's is a sample piece of the cipher, — kindly included and sent by 
Newbold, — or merely his chirography we cannot tell; and there 
is probably scant difference!) 

This cipher has been Newbold's great recent work and he has 
solved it. What it is, the Acting Historian is not going to herein 
reveal as it is all coming out in a book pretty soon, by Newbold ; 
read that. 

Newbold too, is a prolific writer, and some of his recent items 

are: 

"Descent of Christ in the Odes of Solomon" ; 

"Aristotle"; 

"A Syriac Valentinian Hymn" ; 

"The Syriac Dialogue Socrates" ; i 

"Early Christianity" ; 

"The Voynich Roger Bacon M.S."; 

"The Valentinian Gnosis" ; 
appearing in various publications, lecture courses, etc. Newbold's 
Societies are: 

American Philosophical Society; 

American Philosophical Association ; 

American Oriental Society; 

Oriental Club of Philadelphia; 

Classical Club of Philadelphia; 

New England Society for Physical Research; 

American Institute for Scientific Research (member of Council) ; 

Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis ; 

American Psychiolapial Association. 

Newbold is a member of the Faculty at Penn, and in fine recog- 
nition of his attainments, had the honor of a Degree being bestowed 
upon him, 1922, by the University. Recalling that Jastrow — that 
man of extraordinary knowledge in similar lines is gone, but yet 
that Newbold and Montgomery are very much at the University, 
makes one think "The King is dead ; long live the kings." During 
the war Newbold had the rather unique work of translating or 
censoring foreign language papers. He is one whose greatest pleas- 
ure is his work; between such, he says "I see no distinction." Books 
are his hobby; tobacco the nearest approach to a vice. No hundred 
words are needed to convey his message to '87. He tersely puts it in 
thirty-one : 

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"Busy; not quite so poor; quite contented and hope a little wiser and 
better. Message — Regret not the passing of years; look forward to more 
and ever more blessings to come." 

LEVIS PASSMORE NEWLIN 

While no mere material cement is needed to make the members 
of '87 at large, adhere, yet the world in general needs it, and Newlin 
is still hard on the job of making it — as he also continues to reside 
at Allentown, Pennsylvania, and as chemist to the Lehigh Portland 
Cement Co. As that now dates from 1897 — a quarter of a century 
back — it looks as though this probationary period is satisfactory, and 
that he may soon feel that he has a regular position! 

Aside from name, address, occupation and membership in the 
Barger, No. 333, F. and A. M., since 1909, Newlin returns noth- 
ing, his blank being otherwise filled in with eight "Nones," one 
"Before, " one "Not actively" and twelve dashes. This makes us 
tolerably certain that he started to fill in the '87 blank at the same 
time as his income tax blank, got them mixed after the fourth ques- 
tion and has put his tax answers in the '87 blank and vice versa. 
We are curious to see, therefore, what rating and valuation the 
Infernal Revenue Office will attach to his '87 pleasures, membership, 
and vices, all if so returned, to Washington. We expect he will be 
bankrupt if he pays according to the worth thereof. 

WILLIAM BYRD PAGE 

The Acting Historian recalling Murphey and Colladay and 
Frankel and Amram, from the old Rugby Academy days of even be- 
fore college, recalls as well, Page as a high jumper therein. That he 
would put that early training to later account, was likely, and that 
he has jumped into the real thing now, we believe will be quite 
agreed upon, after the perusual of this. Talk about the man who 
crossed bees with fireflys to get twenty-four hours of honey making! 

Page worked for years in the Pennsylvania Railroad and got a 
great training in its various shops and divisions. We believe that 
his initials are on the door jambs, and on the pay-check stubs of 
most of the roundhouses and office files from Montauk to the muddy 
Mississippi. And we quite know that in riding with him to New 
York, for instance, it was perfectly usual for him to suddenly ex- 
cuse himself while going at eighty miles an hour, and hang by his 

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toes to inspect some new dingus or other contraption underneath, 
that the engineering department was trying out. 

After that career he was interested for awhile in magic; and 
now note the effect of being able to cross a railroad experience with 
magic, on a Rugby base, coupled with shrewd selection. For he 
is now with the Pullman Company, inspection engineer at head- 
quarters and a member of the Pullman Club. What greater apex 
to a railroad career? Always riding in Pullmans; always getting 
a berth; eating in the dining car and talking back to the conductor, 
and only signing a little company slip! How many of us have 
erred in the selection of a career, or have grovelled because of not 
having practiced magic. Such is the picture that comes to us as 
we read his return. 

Before locating as above, Page had some interesting experiences 
in Russia, where he was a member of the Baldwin Locomotive con- 
tingent of the Russian Railway Service Corps of Engineers, on a 
trip to Vladivostock, Siberia, 19 17-18. After returning to the 
United States he was appointed supervising inspector of the Pitts- 
burg Testing Laboratory to represent the Government, to pass on 
materials, workmanship and packing of car materials, cranes, etc., 
for the A. E. F., from June, 19 18, to September, '19. His son, 
William Byrd, Jr., was in the Marines in 191 7, in English waters 
most of the time, until his discharge in 19 19. Of pleasures and 
vices, Page records not any. After all, are not all such embraced 
in the words "Pullman Company?" 

JOHN GRUBB PARKE, JR. 

Grubb to ois an engineer — how prolific '87 was in such — and in 
the steel business. He resides near Pittsburg and is chief engineer 
of the Pittsburg Steel Company — since 1907 — ; and that is no child's 
responsibility. But that his interests are not bounded by steel alone, 
is shown by the associations that he lists: 

Association of Iron & Steel Electrical Engineers ; 

Board of Trade, Monessen ; 

Americus Club, Pittsburgh; 

National Rivers and Harbors Congress. 
His son, Frantz Torbert, is preparing for the University of Penn- 
sylvania, where, like father, like son, he will enter the Engineering 
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Parke asserts that his chief mental diversion, physical pleasure 
and hobby are the three "R's" of reading, resting and riding; and 
he gloriously prances into the arena of honesty — we fear hypocriti- 
cally sidestepped by some — by saying that his chief est weakness is 
"looking at the girls," and that "since short skirts came in, it was 
two years before I discovered that they bobbed their hair." Parkes 
message has a sort of a homespun and satisfying flavor to it: 

"Just working hard and enjoying life and trying to keep a sixteen- 
year old son from being a son-of-a-gun, and teaching him to be what his 
father was not." 

DAVID PEPPER 

Pepper continues as an electrical engineer, engaged in public 
utility work, water power plants, steam power and industrial devel- 
opment, and the editor deduces that they, or that work, must be 
so all-absorbing as to have prevented Pepper thinking of anything 
else, and therefore forgotten both self and the Class in the making 
of his return. And for this the editor is truly sorry, for Pepper gets 
to many Class Reunions, is a good member of the Class, and we 
know, could tell us a good deal of interest about himself and his 
interests, if he but would. 

During the war Pepper acted as power engineer of the Electric 
Storage Battery Company on war contracts; and that he is close 
to that work is shown by sundry inventions and patents on primary 
batteries and casting machines. 

Knowing Pepper as agreeably as we do we rate his undis- 
closed virtues as numerous, his pleasures the same, his hobbies proba- 
bly shockingly electric — if his batteries are well charged — and his 
vices as probably no worse than parchesi or tiddliwinks. 

GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER 

Why gild the lily; why paint the sun! How can one add to 
the volumes already said of George Wharton Pepper? Ever and 
consistently distinguished, since his elevation to the Senatorship espec- 
ially, he has been so written up, dissected, pictured and X-rayed, that 
we take it that the greatest relief that could be to George W. would 
be to take up this volume and not find any further adulation, praise 
or perorations upon his assorted excellencies. Seriously, the Acting 
Historian gropes as to what he could say that has not already been 
said, unless it be as to his breakfast food or whether he prefers Dei- 



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mel mesh or other weaves in "underthings," (as our freely flaunted, 
fulsome, frank, feminine advertisements especially, now purvey in a 
way that would jar our grandparents for a verity) but as to such 
he has no data. 

Pepper is a glutton for work, in broad interests, in activity 
and in civic patriotism. Always so characterized he simply so con- 
tinues — consistently, steadily, simply. And that that has brought 
a rich recognition of honor, his recent appointment by Governor 
Sproul as Senator from Pennsylvania is the fullest evidence. To 
think of what that means, think for a moment of the one hundred 
and ten millions of the United States — and of the number of States 
in the Union, and but two men from each, respectively selected to 
best represent all those commonwealths and all that population, in 
the highest Chamber of the land. And when George Wharton 
Pepper — not by the vicissitudes of election striving or of political 
procedure or manoevurings, but by the calm selective action of the 
Governor of the State, is made one of those two, then indeed is the 
significance of the tribute the better realized. 

Pepper's work as a lawyer, pre-eminent as it has been, yet would 
seem to be but a fraction of his industry. He is a constant writer, 
many essays and addresses coming from him, and in club and associa- 
tion membership he is omnivorous almost, and active as well in any to 
which he belongs. 

Some are: The Bar Association, Law Association of Pennsyl- 
vania, American Philosophical Society, Sharswood Law Club, Geo- 
graphic Society, Biographical Club, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Zetta 
Psi, University Club of Philadelphia, Racquet Club, Pennsylvania 
Society Sons of the Revolution, Church Club of Philadelphia, Ca- 
vendish Club and Universities Club of London. 

Pepper was chairman of the Pennsylvania Council of National 
Defence, 1917-19; vice-president of the League for the Preservation 
of American Independence, active in the reforming of the system of 
public education in the State, a member of the Commission on Con- 
stitutional Amendment and Revision, and on dozens of other things. 
A trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and chairman of Com- 
mittee on Policy, Pepper has ever been a pillar of support and guid- 
ance ; as likewise is he in the Episcopal Church, wherein he is one 
of its largest supporting cathedral and ornate columns, so to speak. 
He is a trustee of the Philadelphia Welfare Association, and probably 



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prominent in numerous other things of which the writer knows not. 
In the early days old Ben Franklin was in his interests, "the many 
sided Franklin." In these days we should be tempted to call Pepper 
a multi-sided polygon. 

That Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and all way stations in the 
nation at large may continue to look forward to the perpetuation 
of this human "Man-O-War," is happily to be noted, thro' the chil- 
dren and the crop of accruing grandchildren of the Pepper strain. 
Previous histories have recorded the former and of the latter, the 
Acting Historian would point out that Pepper is hard after Houston, 
having five to date: 

George Wharton, 3rd; May 4, 1917. 
Heyward Meyer, November 1, 1918. 
Charlotte; April 30, 1920. 
F. Eugene D. Newbold; May 27, 1918. 
John Sargent Newbold, 2nd; November 9, 1921. 
and with the polls not yet closed. 

That there should be another George Wharton Pepper on the 
rolls of old Penn, would seem to be the hundred per cent of the 
fitness of things; and that was covered by Pepper's son, — G. W. P., 
Jr., — who ranked as A. B., '16, and Architecture B. S., 1919. 

Pepper took two seasons at Plattsburg and his later war activ- 
ities in addresses, organization, chairmanship of the State, as referred 
to, are so well remembered as to scarcely need itemization here. 
His son, of course, followed his honored sire's footsteps. He at- 
tended first Officers' Training Camp at Fort Niagara, May, 1917; 
was commissioned second lieutenant C. A. C, August, '17; assigned 
instructor at Fortress Monroe; promoted first lieutenant, November, 
'17; assigned 47th Regiment, C. C, overseas, October, 1918-March, 
1919. 

To the mind of the writer one of the greatest factors that has 
made Pepper able to do the phenomenal amount of work, mental 
and physical, that he does, has been his love of the out doors. If 
Page's name is scribed on every door post of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road, so indeed is Pepper's chiselled on every mountain top of the Ap- 
plachian system in the Mount Desert district, where he spends his 
summers. His mountain climbing, tennis, squash, swimming, wood 
chopping a la Lincoln and Gladstone, — his outdoor loves, — have 
given a foundation of physique and health that has carried his work, 
and calf sinews that rival the wires of the Brooklyn bridge. 

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As the generally acclaimed successor to Philadelphia's foremost 
lawyer, the late John G. Johnson, and with the same simplicity of 
manner, of personality and of bearing, and of easy approach, Pepper 
simply puts down as his chiefest mental diversion "Work," — the 
broadest answer of all. His chiefest hobby, "My children"; his 
chiefest weakness, "My granchildren." 

Verily if '87 is the Matterhorn of the University's classes, so 
in truth is Pepper the Matterhorn of '87. 

ROBERT EVANS PETERSON, 3RD 

Peterson is also living in California, having removed there 
a number of years ago, and with restored health has since been in 
active work in various points in the southern portion of the State. 
Engaged at first in building interests, he joined the Standard Oil 
Company forces in 19 17, serving in the engineering department 
at San Pedro and El Segundo, 19 17-21. From then to date Peter- 
son has been occupied in building construction in Santa Monica, 
where he makes his home. He still holds office in the Engineers' 
Club, past and present, of the Standard Oil Company, in which he 
continues a member. 

During the war Peterson — as superintendent of construction — 
was occupied in the erection of additional plants for the Standard 
Oil Company for handling aviation gasoline and fuel oil for ship- 
ping, etc., and he had a fine variety of experiences and discomforts 
in living in quarters of a housing capacity many times less than the 
needful, but beyond that "no casualties." Divorced from his first 
wife, he remarried, Vida Lobingin, April 30, 1919. 

For relaxation Peterson turns to reading, music and the drama. 
To stretch his legs he tramps to some canyon in the Sierra Moun- 
tains. Sketching and working in his shop are his hobbies, and such 
begets that which he says his wife says is his particular weakness, "an 
all forgetfulness of time, if interested in anything." 

As a cordial greeting, Peterson writes: 

" '87 Classmates, my greeting to you and I hope you all feel as young 
and take as much interest in life as I do. I am not overburdened with the 
goods of the world but am happy. At our entrance into the war, in re- 
sponse to a letter from John Frazer, wanting me to go to France, I took a 
physical examination for the work, but did not pass, so had to be content 
with less active but just as important work here." 



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WILLIAM BURTON PRATT 

No reply. 

FRANCIS JOHN PRYOR 

Pryor may be said to having reversed the usual order of things, 
for where most men fall off of the cars he has fallen on to them, if 
the fact may be so construed of his having fallen into the trolley busi- 
ness and having been there most of his business life. 

Joining the American Railway Company, of Philadelphia, an 
operating company of street railway systems, in 1899, he has con- 
tinued with them ever since, working on and upward until now he 
holds the office of comptroller in chief and assistant treasurer. Active 
in the affairs of the American Electric Railways Accountants' Associa- 
tion he has been a member and vice-president of their executive com- 
mittee and has contributed numerous articles on accounting and 
public utility — as Magee would say — problems. 

His daughter, Dorothy, after a course at Sweetbriar College, 
Lynchburg, Va., follows on in the University of Pennsylvania School 
of Education, while his son, Francis, is headed for Trinity College, 
Hartford, in 1922. 

Pryor in his civic interests, is a member of the Art Club of 
Philadelphia, the Aronomink Golf Club, the American Academy of 
Political and Social Science, the Church Club and the Dickens 
Fellowship. For diversion he preferably resorts to golf, and sixteen 
words convey his message to '87 : 

"Always thankful that I was fortunate enough to be a mem- 
ber of the Class of '87." 

PHILIP SYNG PHYSIC RANDOLPH 

No reply. 

THEODORE WOOD REATH 

Reath as a graduate lawyer joined with the Norfolk and West- 
ern Railroad Company. While the Acting Historian will concede 
that he has a good road, it may equally be maintained that it must 
have annexed a good lawyer, for there Reath has been for now thirty- 
one years. And where in 1891 his name was attached to a clerkship, 
it is pleasing to note that the explanation of his relation these days 

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is conveyed by the august title and position of general counsel. And 
if one inquires as to what that signifies, merely bear in mind that 
Caesar had a wife; and that no chairman of the board, mere presi- 
dent, train boy gum-drop vendor or switchman at the points in any 
modern railroad system dares do anything about, on or upon, any- 
thing, unless it has in due course and first been approved by the gen- 
eral counsel! So as an excellent exemplifier of the <2«/i-rolling-stone- 
no-moss theory, we think the Class can say, "Good for Reath." 

During the war he was a member of the Sixth District Local 
Board under the Selective Service act of Congress, at various times 
of the draft. He has joined the August Association of Augmenting 
Grandfathers, thro' the advent of Benjamin Brannan Reath, 3rd, 
November, 19 16, and of Patricia Appleton, March, 1920. His 
clubs are the Franklin Institute, the Rittenhouse (in Philadelphia), 
and the Metropolitan, in Washington, D. C. 

Of his mental joys let Reath name his chief est: 

"The one recommended by Huxley as the only innocent 
pleasure of middle age; jamming the truth down the throats 
of fools." 

His chiefest physical pleasure he names as reading; his hobby, 
bridge, and of his vices, he says: 

"As life is only a survival of the fittest vices, I play no 
favorites and indulge in all that remain to me." 
In his message to the Class, Reath both finely weaves — and 
leaves ! 

"My message to the Class is, first, that I have been well, and second, 
that my prosperity has been at least equal to my deserts for the past ten 
years. As to what I have been doing? Is there any member of the Class 
that would care to confess that? The story of my professional activities 
would be a wearisome recital of astrological expedients and contrivances 
adopted in protection of the twitching pocket nerve of a railroad. 

Newbold will use the permission to express his message in Sanskrit, 
a tongue unknown to the less erudite. My sentimental message to the Class 
— Bang! went the hundred word limit!" 

The editor has purposely kept to the last the notation as to the 
war records of Reath's family in the war. Three boys, a daughter 
and a son-in-law — all in it. And as one reads the simple memoranda 
as below of each, extended upon request, by Reath, without comment, 
but just pointing to the record as does a Spartan father — and reads 
again of his second son, Thomas Roberts Reath, who at Bois de 
Belleau, gave up his life for his country, is there a man in '87 who 



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does not take off his hat in respect, as his eyes fill, to what Reath, 
the father, thro' his son, gave and lost; or who fails to extend his 
deepest, profoundest sympathy; and fails to find the words to express 
what he thinks and feels and would like to say! 

Benjamin Brannan Reath, eldest son, engaged in various war activi- 
ties and registered under the Selective Service Law but not called for 
service before Armistice. 

Elizabeth Reath Appleton, only daughter, in Motor Messenger Corps 
and other war work such as waiting in cafeterias of United Service Clubs, 
aiding in drives for the sale of Liberty Bonds, etc. 

Thomas Roberts Reath, second son, enlisted in April, 1917, in Marines; 
went over-seas in June, 1917; trained one year with Chasseurs Alpin; en- 
tered trench warfare March, 1918, on Verdun front with Fifth Marines and 
again at the end of May, 1918, on the Belleau-Chateau Thierry front. Pro- 
moted corporal, and April 1, 1918, sergeant 43rd Company, Fifth Marines. 
Killed in action in Bois de Belleau by shell fire June 12, 1918. Copy of 
letter from Major Wise, commanding his battalion, dated June 21, 1918, 
reporting his death, attached. 

Theodore Reath, third son, enlisted in Marines October 1, 191 8, and 
mustered out after Armistice. 

John A. Appleton, son-in-law, commissioned second lieutenant of En- 
gineers in October, 1917; went over-seas forthwith and served in the Rail- 
road Section of A. E. F., being promoted first lieutenant, captain and recom- 
mended for majority at the time of Armistice, when he was superintendent 
of terminals of the American Military Railways at Gievres. 



(Copy of letter from Lieutenant Colonel Wise, 
5th Regiment, U. S. Marines.) 
My dear Mrs. Reath: 

Just a few lines in regard to the youngster's death. He was killed in 
the Bois de Belleau by a shell very near where my command post was, 
shortly after bringing his captain out who had been wounded in an attack 
we were making. The day before he went into a quarry and brought out 
about 60 Germans as prisoners single handed. Such an act speaks for itself. 
The company lost very heavily and all officers except one were casualties. 
We did great work, but we paid very dearly for it, but the German offen- 
sive was stopped. This scrawl is poor consolation for your great loss, but 
I know you realize my feelings. 

Sincerely yours, 

Frederick May Wise. 
June 21st. 

P. S. We were not taking our dead out, but burying them where they 
fell but I couldn't do it with your youngster and had him put in the S. W. 
corner of the cemetery at Lucy-Le-Bocage, Seine et Marne, and a stake at 
the head of his grave with his tag on it. At that time and now all of that 
country is being heavily shelled. 



ANDREW PERRY REDIFER 

Redifer continues much as heretofore, in three distinct aspects, 
as recorded in the 1912 history: (A) as a manufacturer of lasts, 
in Philadelphia; (B) as a resident of the suburb of Narberth ; and 
(C) as a conspicuous member of the local fire company, where last 



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recorded as chief engineer, and which distinction he held until 19 14; 
and where he has also apparently a permanent position as one of the 
members of the Borough Council, a seat wherein he has decorated since 

1905. 

Redifer contributes some invaluable information as to his scien- 
tific essays upon a purple diplodocus, as well as about patents upon 
certain curious if not bizarre mechanical allegations. The word 
"i/z-valuable" is used advisedly for the editor has reason to believe 
that such brain storms were either evolved in an absence of reason, 
or else on a day twenty-nine days preceding the last day of April. 

Redifer 's daughter, Bertha C, graduated from Penn State Col- 
lege in 1919, in home economics, according to his information, while 
his son, Andrew Perry, Jr., did the same in the same year, in com- 
merce and finance. During the war the latter enlisted, April 9, 
19 1 7, and was one of the gun crew on the cruiser Seattle and trans- 
port Orizaba, travelling some seventy thousand miles between the 
United States and France, and was on the first American boat in 
Copenhagen, after the Armistice. 

Redifer gives his chief mental delight as the contemplation of 
the universe. It would indeed be hard to find more material! His 
chief pleasure is tennis and his hobby pinochole. He is no doubt 
therefore conversant with the history of the game, same as is Magee 
with chess, and can advise us doubtless as to the extent thereof dur- 
ing the martyrdom of the Christians in Rome, and the influence of 
pinochle upon the life of Savonarola. As to weakness and vice, 
Redifer disclaims any such thing; and thus again is the virtue of '87 
upheld. 

HOWARD SMITH RICHARDS 

The editor rates Richards as the champion modest man of 
the Class. Richards has been associated with Jack Harris in archi- 
tectural work from the year 1 B. C. He and Harris — in that time — 
have done and still are doing much fine architectural work. "Ask 
Dad (Harris) he knows." Harris not only knows that that is so, 
but rightly says so, in his report {quod vide) and blows his horn. 
And along comes Richards, and to the inquiry of "Important work?" 
— in his question blank, mails it back marked "None to mention" 
and as to war record? "None to mention"; and as to hobbies, pleas- 
ures and vices, "None to mention." A bachelor might answer that, 

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when the census man asks about any children, but Richards cannot 
answer that in this instance and expect to be credited. We know 
better. We have therefore reached the conclusion that the division 
of labor in the firm of Harris & Richards is that Harris sells the 
clams, blowing the horn, and that Richards does the dirty work — 
for such there must be, if it is not to be mentioned ? 

Too bad! We are sure that the canary could sing, if it would. 

ROBERT NEALES RIDDLE 

Riddle was a chemist, is a chemist and probably always will be 
a chemist. And what is more he is a good chemist. And when he 
says that he works twelve hours a day and three hundred and sixty 
days in a year a trifle of the reason appears. 

Highly specializing a few years back he invented a process for 

extracting edible oils from cotton seed, rape, etc., and a commercial 

process for manufacturing thiobromine, and caffeine, and his writings 

have rather taken the form of patents thereupon. For the past six 

years he has especially been working upon that will of the wisp and 

lure of lures, the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Of that he says: 

"And have reason to hope. Have found entirely new and unexpected 
reactions that may junk the Haber, Claude, Blucher, Jacobs, electric arc 
processes, etc. If it is what I hope, I feel a leaning for the Nobel prize. 
Basic patents already applied for." "The work so far is only semi-manu- 
facturing. Large scale work may develop a bug that may condemn the 
process commercially. Of course I hope and believe not. Until it is ac- 
tually done and on a large scale it must remain a hope." 

In war experience Riddle, was not fortunate. When offering 
his services, he says, and but one of a handful who had made phosgene, 
the returns of red tape and letters embittered him, and nothing 
came of it. 

His family life has been more satisfying. Two girls — Jane 
Dalzell, September 28, 1910, and Nancy Sadtler, March 9, 19 14 — 
have arrived, and Riddle regrets that he cannot report half a dozen. 
While they are yet a bit young for college, he is ambitious to send 
them, if "only to the end of arming them to best meet the difficult 
modern conditions to achieve a family." During the war Riddle 
received a large amount for his alkaloid work; and since then noth- 
ing ; and he is apprehensive that unless a high tariff is imposed, foreign 
exchange will ruin the fine American chemical industry. If one 



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can stand the gaff of varying conditions, and has the ballast, his opin- 
ion is however — after thirty years experience — that research chem- 
istry does pay. 

Riddle confesses that the last — research chemistry — plus intel- 
lectual music, are his mental delights. Walking is his physical one; 
that the ladies, "God bless 'em" are his hobby, and that as to weak- 
ness, stock-gambling is the worst — unless it be drinking rum. 

ARTHUR JOHN ROWLAND 

At last accounts, Rowland, trained on electrical and engineering 
lines, was at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, where in 1914 he 
was Dean. But withdrawing from there in 191 8, he became — 
August 1st — Vocational Advisor for the Federal Board for Voca- 
tional Education of Disabled Soldiers, in October becoming district 
officer in charge of that work for Pennsylvania and Delaware. In 
1 9 19 he became educational director for the Milwaukee Electric 
Railway & Light Company and for the Wisconsin Gas & Electric 
Company, in Milwaukee, where he now is. 

Rowland's big idea in life is service, which after all comes 
being but pretty nearly the expressing of the Golden Rule in modern 
day terms of industry. And we readily see how, therefore, the 
application of his earlier educational work and of his beliefs and of 
his ambitions, to the conditions of the betterment of the personnel 
of a great modern corporation would be his greatest mental pleasure, 
as he so reports; unless a delightful home life noses that out, as he 
almost suggests. 

Of his family, Rowland says that John Judson will probably 
take the architectural course at Cornell, beginning 1922, while Nor- 
man Roberts, Jr., — grandchild — arrived November 27, 1920, with 
future course as yet not plotted! Active in church work, a Baptist 
Sunday school superintendent for several years, Rowland also loves 
to work with tools — carpentering and electrical work preferred — and 
altogether leads a rational, temperate life that brings with it much 
of satisfaction and happiness. His hobby is but his work — "Service" 
— and his weakness he humbly expresses as his "failure to get into 
each day the work that should be done." 

But while well away from Philadelphia in miles, he is not in 
smiles, and he sends these verbal flowers back east: 

"The last ten years have brought with them greater changes than any 

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previous ten years of adult life. But they have brought widening experi- 
ence and bigger opportunities for service. I am far away from the asso- 
ciations of the good old city of brotherly love, but where I am I have with 
me all the joys of a happy home and many new friends. I hope my old 
Classmates have all had as satisfactory a past and as promising a future 
as has been vouchsafed to me." 



RANDOLPH POTTER RUSSELL 

Our permanent toastmaster, an active worker for the Class, 
and an ardent supporter, had the hardihood to send his return in 
with nothing but his name and address — of which the first we knew 
and the second was a mere unstable detail. To which the Acting 
Historian — smelling a hectic career and his delightful ability to 
express the most commonplace things in wondrous language, had the 
hardihood to send it back to him with a request for better attention. 
Again is the return received, and with the explanation that Russell 
had overlooked the last page, coupled with ten "Nones" that he has 
filled in on the preceding ones. So that but the last page will be the 
arena of any revels in Russellisms. 

R. P. makes a modest reference to his endeavors to help the 
University in various ways, and in the activities of the Class of '87 
on the University's behalf ; and of that we well know and appreciate. 
We did not know, however, that his chief est mental pleasure is "ex- 
posing a spurious democracy." His chiefest hobby is unassailable: 
"the Class of '87." His chiefest outdoor pleasures are most safe and 
sane: golf, driving, walking and automobiling. His greatest weak- 
ness and vice grows more interesting. He says, "Age is my chiefest 
weakness; this and the Volstead act have annulled most of my vices, 
though I still cling to tobacco." Of the Class, he writes: 

"Nothing has benefited me more than the sincere friends 
that I have in my Classmates; and I know that this boon is 
open to every '87 man." 

Who will easily forget Russell's serious efforts, expressed in 
many ways, for the good of '87? Who will forget the unfathom- 
able wonderment as to what he will say next in his moments of 
delicious buffoonery! His account of the red pepper bird that flieth 
backward, for reasons of temperature reduction, is a classic and a 
hundred and one sallies, railleries, and gibes, are verbal delights 
when he presides at an '87 dinner. 



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Why Russell has gone to California (tho' he will be back for 
the coming reunion) we do not know; nor especially why he is in 
the Hollywood district. We await whatever loosely lucid and elu- 
sively illuminating explanation he may wish to make. 

WILLIAM HOMES SALTER 

Salter was born in Minneapolis, took his medical courses east, 
and moved out to Duluth about 1895 an d has been there since as a 
physician. His question sheet returned, modest, free from "isms" 
and reading "just dubbing along in the practice of medicine," to- 
gether with sundry side remarks, makes one but feel that "old Dr. 
Salter" must be another of that all tod limited number of old-style 
doctors, who as guides, philosophers and friends make for the better, 
every community in which they live. And when Mrs. Salter reads 
Salter's answer to the question "Married since 1912?" we think that 
she is going to slip across the room and blindfold Salter's eyes from 
behind, say "Guess who's here?" and repeat a little sentimental 
business of earlier years. For his old school answer is "No; thank 
God, I have been able to hold on to the same one I had in 1912." 

During the war Salter applied for medical work and was re- 
jected because he carried too much adipose tissue! The best Salter 
got during the war was a rating in the Volunteer Medical Corps; 
but he was not called upon. His bete noir (Verifying that in a 
French dictionary the A. H. finds that it means "wild boar"!) is 
sugar and his constant desire and weakness, he advises, is to break 
the commandment, "Thou shalt not eat sugar nor anything made 
thereof." So he lets off steam in the theatre, books, a cigarette or 
so and a few congenial fellows around his dinner table and, as he 
adds, with sex no bar. 

Salter's message to the Class somehow seems to shorten the 
official mileage between Duluth and eighty-seven ('87) points east! 
"Made a living; occasionally a bit more, in medicine, but regularly 
lost it attempting to play the other fellow's game. At present am beginning 
to recuperate from the most disastrous venture of all, the turning of my 
chiefest hobby into a business. Since, my own and sole intent has been to 
redeem certain promises to pay, held as assets by our local banks. Never- 
theless I have enjoyed life, am a bit whiter of head, a bit less rotund of 
body but still have plenty to spare. Ten years ! It is hard to realize that 
so long has passed since I was privileged to meet the fellows at the 25th 
Reunion and speak for the farfleeing ones. My pleasantest remembrances 
and my chiefest regret that I can not meet you all. God bless all of you." 

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ANDRE WILLIAM SEGUIN 

Seguin is another of '87's outpost men — stationed way down 
south — of whom both Ashbrook in the 19 12 history and the present 
Acting Historian in this, go upon record in saying that he could tell 
us much of interest, we are certain, if he but would ! And of whom, 
while often thinking, we can but wonder, speculate and surmise. 

Seguin is still in New Orleans — that great and twelfth (?) 
city of the United States and such a mixture of the quaint and 
attractive past and the modern commercialism — where he returned 
after graduation and where he has been for years in the Customs 
Service — now as chief clerk. He still remains unmarried, thus pre- 
cluding statistical figures as to offspring output, but he does point 
out some other lines of potential weakness, in sundry club member- 
ships, as follows: 

New Orleans Chess Club (Magee take notice), Checkers and Whist 
Club, Audubon Golf Club, New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club, Church Club 
of Louisiana, Kingsley House Association, Charity Organization, Knights 
of Pythias and the B. P. O. Elks. 

Such should at least keep a bachelor out of mischief! 

Seguin rates golf as his best outdoor sport; lectures and reading 
as his best indoor ones; while, unfortunately, of hobbies he says he 
has none. Of weaknesses and vices, however, it is the other way 
apparently, for he says that it is too hard to figure which is the worst. 
We think that Seguin's mind was not hitting on all six cylinders 
when he started the message below, for in our humble opinion his 
long and consistent record of usefulness does add to the lustre of '87's 
shield, whether one be in Eastport, Key West, Pasadena or Seattle! 
"I can think of nothing to say about myself that would interest the 
others. I have not distinguished myself in any way, but I rejoice in the 
distinguished achievements of my Classmates and trust that their future 
triumphs may shed still greater lustre on the shield of '87." 

FRANCIS WENRICH SHEAFER 

No reply. 

FREDERICK HART SHELTON 

We are advised from a perfectly authentic source, that after 
leaving college, and for some twenty-five years, Shelton was engaged 
in gas engineering and in the development of gas, electric and trolley 

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companies, etc. About ten years ago, however, he withdrew from 
the active management of such matters, and since, resident in Phil- 
adelphia, he has been occupied in a variety of business, research and 
charitable interests. 

His clubs are the Lotos, of New York; the University and the 
Philadelphia Country Club, of Philadelphia; the Rose Tree Fox 
Hunting Club; the Automobile Club, of Philadelphia; The Castine, 
Maine, Golf Club, etc. He is a member of the Pennsylvania His- 
torical Society, the Delaware County Historical Society, the Nu- 
mismatic and Antiquarian Society, the Pennsylvania Forestry Asso- 
ciation, and a number of minor associations. 

Part of Shelton's time is given to administrative work for one 
of the Philadelphia Hospitals. He has a theory that in view of 
the frailties of the human race, and the number of black marks 
anyway, on one's score when the final accounting comes, that it is just 
as well to have a little on the other side, to help average up a bit; 
and hopes that when he has followed the trail of the red and blue 
bands on the telegraph pole line that leads to '87 's ultimate and 
final hoped for golden gate, that St. Peter will credit for such kind 
of work; trusting that such may compensate in lieu of his lost 
Presbyterianism as mentioned in Brock's biography. He also lends 
a hand with Ashbrook, in steering the affairs of the old Apprentices' 
Library, and in some other weaknesses of a like nature. Of hobbies, 
Shelton has had a choicely varied assortment. At one time it was 
turtles. He had a collection greater than the Smithsonian, and 
fought a Pullman crew all the way from San Francisco to Philadel- 
phia over some specimens in a basket under the berth, that he al- 
leged were only bugs or insects, and not contravening the rule of 
no animals allowed. He has a library on the queen city of the world 
— Paris — of a couple of hundred volumes that date from 1600 or 
thereabouts, to the present. He hunted windmills all over the earth 
for a while, and has a monograph on this — the world's chief motor 
for 800 years (1000 to 1800) that is unique as a historical and en- 
gineering record ; and which he has reposed in the archives of the 
Franklin Institute. At present he has drifted towards American 
history, and his arguments as to the significance of certain prehistoric 
walrus bones in Maine; the whereabouts of the early artist Wert- 
muller's celebrated nude "Danae" ; the unappreciated glory of Phila- 
delphia's own Fort Mifflin, or the interpretation of the marks on 



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the Mason and Dixon line marker monuments, are at least interesting 
to himself, whether convincing to his auditors or not — sometimes 
inveigled to one of his addresses. Hence it is that perhaps his greatest 
mental pleasure is some rare find, that few others care a particle 
about. 

His greatest physical pleasure is automobile touring; an an- 
nual four thousand mile cruise to New England and back; preferably 
via the Province of Quebec — these days! His chief weakness and 
vice, he knows mighty well, but he is not idiot enough to unnecessar- 
ily reveal it. 

During the war his daughter, Helen Shelton, a large and healthy 
youngster of seventeen, joined the Motor Messenger Service, and 
had for some two years a varied experience in driving a motor car 
around the Philadelphia district. There were compensations, how- 
ever, for some of the hard work; Joffre, Pershing, etc., at short range, 
for instance, as well as pleasant lesser army men at equally close 
range. Transporting a couple of aviators one time from a broken 
plane was succeeded by a ride the next day, in another, two thousand 
feet high, extended her, in which all the rules of the service were 
fractured, of course; but after all nothing else was hurt; and does 
red blood run differently now than from the beginning of time? 
Assigned to Chester during the influenza epidemic, she transported 
the sick to and worked in a temporary hospital on twenty-four hour 
stretches, to a degree that resulted in Charles N. Schwab later vol- 
untarily writing her a letter of appreciation and thanks on behalf 
of the shipworkers, for her "work in the trenches," on this side; 
which also just goes to show how big men can always find time to 
pat the youngsters on the back — because they are big men! Mrs. 
Shelton also did extended work in Canteen, Red Cross and Emer- 
gency Aid lines. 

As for his message, Shelton thinks that the best that he can 
extend to the Class he has extended, in the fact of his having un- 
dertaken to do the work involved in this history — bulletin assem- 
bling ; and trusts that will absolve him from anything further. 

ALBERT EDWARD SHOLL 

After active work in the newspaper line in his early days, and 
a somewhat varied experience as related in the 1907 history, Sholl 
located in New York. We now have pleasant word from him there 

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resident, in which he states that he is occupied in bond and stock 
selling, thus making a fitting running mate for Batchelor. But 
he says that to fill in all the spaces indicated in the question sheet 
would strain his inventive processes unthinkably ; and he presumes 
the Class wants facts and not fiction. 

Sholl views what he has experienced or drawn in life as a 
twentieth century tragi-comedy in tabloid. But while his exper- 
iences have been diversified and far from easy or gentle at times, 
it would seem that in these present days at anyrate, he must be get- 
ting at least a modicum of pleasure out of life, as he goes along. For 
note the scope of his answer to the question as to mental pleasures: 
"Reading (sciences, history, philosophy) music (violin and opera) 
and chess." These closely simulate his hobby, as well, for that, he 
states is divided between music and chess; and he adds, "anything 
drinkable, 'anything' of course connotes prescribed drinkables only" ; 
and while on this subject he affirms his greatest weakness to be "a 
pathological aversion to the use of water as a beverage." 
As some reader, is Sholl reflected in his message: 
"Many years ago when I first read Rasselas I wondered boyishly what 
happened to those "who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy and 
pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age, etc." 
I have found out. I hope that I am the only member of '87 who has, for the 
discovery is fabulously rich in disagreeable surprises. This is a Vale of 
Tears. Release for me your scalding sobs and ever will your earthly and 
subsequent welfare be the burden of my amateurish prayers." 



JAMES REEVES SIDDALL 

Siddall builds bridges; he builds good bridges; he builds many 
of them. He has done it for many years and he is still hard at it, 
and every time an '87 man rides over a bridge in a train on the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad system hereabouts he may be reasonably sure that 
its safety is largely due to Siddall. 

For Siddall entered the engineering department of that railroad 
company in 1887, was assistant to engineer of bridges two years 
later; was such in 19 12 and still gives his business address as room 
674, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, and his occupation as "struc- 
tural engineering." So it would appear that it has been Siddall's 
both fate and policy to do one thing, but to do that thing well ; so 
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the lustre of the shield of which Seguin speaks, can '87 point to 
another member; Siddall. 

During the war his son, Edwin Reeves, was a corporal in the 
nth U. S. Cavalry; and the rapidly enlarging ranks of the Mili- 
tary order of '87's grandfathers is enlarged by the advents of Theo- 
philus Saulnier, Jr., November 14, 191 9, and Edwin Reeves Siddall, 
Jr., February 2, 1922. But whether these youngsters will ulti- 
mately dally over plans for, or dangle from the trusses of, future 
Pennsylvania Railroad bridges, Siddall intimates not ; and it is a trifle 
early to surmise. 

HENRY DANIEL EMANUEL SIEBOTT 

No reply. 

JAMES SOMERS SMITH, JR. 

If Ashbrook is stroke oar (fighting off Latta, who might easily 
and bluntly blurt "What's the matter with my sitting there" — as his 
gait-setting strokes for the Class are recalled) then indeed is Somers 
Smith the coxswain of the eight oared crew that has so kept the '87 
boat in the lead that it might be again well said, as in the first 
America's cup race, "Your majesty, there is no second." Far seeing, 
always alert, his eye ever watching the waters that surround '87's 
shell, he finely steers and ably coaches and coaxes a powerful crew 
that keeps '87 in its long since acquired lead. 

To recount Smith's excellencies of business or of '87, would but 
be to re- write the statements in the 1907 and the 19 12 histories. 
Suffice it is to here say that he is still more so ; still at the old stand. 

While the quarters at 212 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, 
in which he makes the usual technical denials of running the vener- 
able insurance company, the Philadelphia Contributionship are la- 
belled with the name of that concern, such premises might also as 
logically be labelled Class of '87; Main office: "WALK IN"; for no 
man of '87 wanting counsel, suggestion, information or the glad 
hand of welcome extended, wends his way aught but to that address. 

Smith still specializes on high class clubs, as his own collection, 
offering as his exhibit in the museum showcase thereof, the Philadel- 
phia Club, the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the Philobiblon, the Auto- 
mobile Club of Philadelphia, Schuylkill Fishing Company (treasurer, 



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1912-19), Sons of the Revolution, Philadelphia Skating and Humane 
Society, Fire Insurance Society of Philadelphia and F. and A. M. 
of Pennsylvania Lodge 51 (Master, 1908), and the Grand Lodge 
Finance Committee (Ch. 19 13-15), and Commissioners Sinking 
Fund (treasurer 1915-19 — ). While not given to written publica- 
tions, Smith gets off verbal ones frequently, as he has for several years 
opened the Insurance Society of Philadelphia, with an address on the 
"Principles and History of Fire Insurance." 

James Somers, Jr., holds a U. of P. B. A. of 1912, while son 
Cooper is in the '23 Arts. During the war Somers, Jr., had an 
active record compressed as follows : 

Second lieutenant, U. S. A., entered May 11, 1917. Discharged May 26, 
1919. Headquarters Co., First Pioneer Infantry. Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aine 
and Meuse-Argonne offensives. With Array occupation, Ehrenbrighstein on 
Rhine, then Courier Service. 

Smith's son-in-law, Joseph Wood, Jr., also has an overseas war 

record, as follows: 

Enlisted, Essington, Pa., October 3, 1917. School Military Aeronautics, 
Austin, Texas, November 3, 1917, to December 20, 1917. Observer Cadet, 
Post Field, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, January 3 to March 1, 1918. Commissioned 
second lieutenant, Air Service, March 1, 1918. Instructor, School for Ob- 
servers, Ft. Sill, until June 9, 1918. Sent to France as Observer on "Over- 
sees Training Mission," July 5, 1918. On staff Chief of Training, Tours, 
France. Took Obesrvers' Course, Chatillon-sur-Seine. Served thru Ar- 
gonne Offensive with 1st Squadron, 1st Observation Group, 1st Corps, 1st 
Army. Returned to U. S. as representative, Training Section, A. E. F., 
November 1, 1918. Discharged, Washington, D. C, December 27, 1918. 
Croix de Guerre. 

Mrs. Smith was active in Red Cross, Canteen, Y. M. C. A. 
and National League of Women's Service, while Smith's daughter was 
in Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives, etc. Smith is secretary of 
Board of Managers, Hospitals of Graduate School of Medicine, U. of 
P., and was secretary of the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for 
Graduates in Medicine until its absorption in 19 18 by the U. of P., 
which had previously taken over the Medico-Chirugical Hospital, etc. 
He is manager of the Mercantile Beneficial Association (since 191 1) ; 
of the Charity Ball (chairman, 1920) ; and is secretary since 19 10 
of the Corporation for the Relief of Widows and Children in Com- 
munion of the P. E. Church in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 

Smith is a member of the Unrestrainable Galaxy of Grandfath- 
er's and at present has tied the score of G. W. Pepper, by Nancy 
Cooper Wood, May 1, 1916; Hope Cooper Wood, December 23, 
1917; Mary Somers Wood, January 7, 1921 ; Lydia Learning 
Smith, March 30, 1921, and by James Somers Smith, 3rd, born April 



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14, I9 2 2, and whose advent we believe Smith insisted upon before this 
work went to press. Aside from grandchildren his chief diversion 
is reading, with a tendency that can only be surmised, as it is not 
disclosed. Out of doors Smith is one of a quartette whose years ag- 
gregate over two hundred, and who are diletanttes in tramping and 
golf. He swears that he cannot afford a hobby and devoutly trusts 
that no one knows what his chief vice is. His thought, as a message 
to the Class is: 

''Never owning the pen of a ready writer, nearing the palsy age and 
believing that actions speak louder than written words; — it seems futile for 
me to address '87. That Class which stands for noblesse oblige as against 
laissez fairef The Class which inspires its members to 'service' for a 
classmate, his family or for Pennsylvania, while it makes us proud of the 
success of '87 men, as we try to bask in the reflected glory of their achieve- 
ments!" 

WILLIAM POULTNEY SMITH 

When distinguished visitors come to Philadelphia they are shown 

Independence Hall, the Mint, the Baldwin locomotive works and 

William P. Smith at Cramp's shipyard. Joking aside, the editor 

wonders how many stop to think of the fundamental factors that make 

the great industrial establishments of Philadelphia; and of which 

personnel is one of the greatest. And if one does stop to so think, 

then we can understand one of the reasons for Cramp's success, in 

having for years on its rolls such men as our own "Poultry" Smith, 

as we used to call him, year in and year out — some thirty-four now — 

in sterling worth, first learning, and then working in innumerable 

phases of that great corporation's interest, for this third of a century. 

And what life work would seem to have more interest, in business and 

engineering, and in national importance, than such work ? Take a look 

at what Smith (and Cramps) did in war times for instance: 

Engineering and production work in the World War, 1914-1919, Phila- 
delphia and New York: Outfitted the Russian Navy with telescopes, bin- 
oculars, periscopes, and gun sights, thousands upon thousands of them, and 
the British Navy with gun sights, telescopes and range finders, living for 
two years, 1914-1915, in "No Man's Land" (New York City) to speed pro- 
duction and shipment. Constructed three of the largest stills in the U. S. 
for manufacture of mustard gas for the Army at a cost of $50,000 each, 
1917. Aided in reconditioning and had charge of construction and produc- 
tion on over four hundred vessels in the Navy and merchant fleet during 
the war, including 200 destroyers, 100 Emergency Fleet vessels, 100 Eagle 

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Boats, U. S. B. Wyoming, U. S. S. Leviathan, U. S. B. Idaho, transports 
Great Northern and Northern Pacific, 1914-1919. 

In the Catskills, where it is said there are several commercial 
hotel "echoes" for the edification of guests, the regular echo one day 
did not report for duty and a substitute had to be hurried to his post. 
When the proprietor told his guests to call "Hullo Smith" and listen 
to the echo, the reply — from the understudy, unfamiliar with the 
work — was, "Which Smith do you mean?" In our instance there is 
no ambiguity as to which Smith do we mean; it is William Poult- 
ney, who added to the lustre of '87's shield, all right, in the difficult 
grind of war industrial conditions. 

And speaking of echoes we note an echo of Smith himself, for 
there was launched from the Smith ways, on February 3, 19 15, with 
all due ceremony and concern, the good ship William Poultney Smith, 
Jr. Smith's Associations are: 

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; 
The Machinery Builders' Society (chairman Marine Section, 1919) ; 
American Marine Association (member Executive Committee) ; 
Pine Valley Golf Club (member of Board of Directors) ; 
Racquet Club; Philadelphia Country Club; Cynwyd Club; 
Cynwyd Manor Improvement Association. 

Smith is one of the few '87 men who have changed their leop- 
ardian spots and have reformed. At least he says that he has, and 
he ought to know, — of course golf always excluded, from which no 
one ever reforms and which he rates as both pleasure and hobby. 
Listen to him: 

"Of the three cardinal vices, 'wine, women and song,' I am indulging 
freely in the first, thanks to Mr. Volstead, I am done with the second, i.e. 
'wild women,' and have been since my marriage in 1910. The third is my 
real vice, my friends say." 

"My dear Classmates: If this confession is of any interest to you, go 
to it. Until I married in 19 10, I looked after number one only and not 
very well at that. I made a good deal of money and spent it. I became 
famous locally as a golf champion and nationally as the best second rate 
player in the country. I remember defeating three ex-national champions 
in one tournament and then losing the tournament. In my family I rank 
number five, Mrs. Smith, the two children and the Cadillac coming ahead 
of me except on the first of the month when the bills come in. Then I am 
shoved out in front. Nevertheless I am very happy in my home life and 
have been prosperous in the last ten years, and if I can repeat for five or 
six more my family will be beyond the reach of harm. Here's hoping the 
same to you all." 

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MILTON VALENTINE SNYDER 

Recognizing that the crop of famous international war and news- 
paper correspondents and globe trotters must be maintained, '87 
long since entered Snyder in the list; and again does the shield get 
an extra lustre. 

If there is anything in the way of a scrap or excitement, from 
an international embroglio to royal twins or a dogfight that Snyder 
has missed in recent years, we would like to know it. World con- 
flagrations are but the meat upon which he feeds; all he needs as a 
travelling outfit is a cable code and a draft on the home office. And 
thus we find Snyder — and '87 — a war correspondent for the New 
York Sun, in France, England, Belgium and Italy, 1917-18-19; at- 
tending the early sessions of the Versailles Peace Conference ; witness- 
ing the epochal surrender of the German fleet, November 21, 191 8, 
and the march of the Allies in Paris, July 14, 19 19. Some retrospect 
that! 

Moreover now we know why "if you see it in the Sun, it's so," 
he being the London and Paris war correspondent of that great journal 
in 191 7- 1 8- 19, and now foreign editor, since its consolidation with 
the New York Herald. 

When all is said and done, however, it is agreed that no one 
has reached real greatness until he or she has written a book, and 
Snyder's objective being such, we find that — globe trotting perhaps 
not being conductive to the rocking of the cradle, and the "he and 
she" specification being strictly adhered to — that he and his wife — 
Alice Ziska — have jointly brought forth a book (Dutton 1921) 
with the tormentingly teasing title of "Paris Days and London 
Nights" ; and all words that has reached this office as yet as to it, is 
that it is mighty good. 

That Mrs. Snyder is a good running mate to "Milt," is shown 
by her war work. She was volunteer nurse and historian in the 
operating room, American Military Hospital No. 1, at Neuilly, 
France ; volunteer worker, Duryea Oeuvre and William Nelson 
Cromwell Oeuvre in Paris, 19 18- 19. 

Snyder's clubs are the Pilgrims of Great Britain, the Pilgrims 
of America, the University of Pennsylvania of New York, in all of 
which he is a member of the council, and of the Franco-American 
Society. His mental pleasure may be found at an opera in Buda- 



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Pesth, or at a Grand Guignol in Paris, or just a book on the Lom- 
bardy plains of Italy. He plays no hobby beyond another, and he 
confesses that his biggest weakness is a "desire for change." (The 
editor has the same — but not the same kind.) And as he takes stock 
of '87 — Class and men — these thoughts come to Snyder: 

"The past ten years mean much to '87. They cover the period in which 
most of us have given our best efforts in one direction or another. The big 
question is — are we satisfied with the results? Today many of us stand 
where we will stand to-morrow and the day after to-morrow. Some, how- 
ever, will go further. If we have learned to ignore the little vexations of 
life and to appreciate the big things, that is well worth while." 

THEODORE NELSON SPENCER 

Spencer sends admirably complete data as to his present self 
and past ten years. 

Upon the completion of the Torresdale Municipal Filter Plant 
of Philadelphia, as related in the 19 12 history, Spencer was trans- 
ferred to the sewage disposal plant built on Pennypack Creek, where 
he was in charge, and in 19 12 he was again transferred to a new 
department of City Transit, inaugurated for the development of 
the transportation facilities of Philadelphia, where he now remains. 
He is in charge of all surveys for laying out subways, surface high- 
speed lines and elevated railways. Between some of this municipal 
work above, he tucked in a trip abroad, in 191 1, but this was by no 
means all for pleasure, for regaining run down health was the greater 
objective. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers, vice-president of the Municipal Society of Engineers, City of 
Philadelphia, and member of the Philadelphia Association of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers. Of his children, the oldest, 
Adelaide Gilbert, married to Robert D. Hughes, lawyer of Wood- 
bury, N. J., has one child, Helen Marie, born June 12, 19 19. The 
second daughter, Frances Marion, born November 1, 1896, married 
to Alfred Merril Redding, electrical engineer, on October 15, 19 19, 
has a daughter, Margaret Louise, born January 9, 1922. The only 
son, T. Nelson Spencer, Jr., born February 21, 1902, is unmarried 
and is a junior mechanical engineer of the Class of '23, University 
of Pennsylvania. Both sons-in-law are graduates of the University 
of Pennsylvania. 

During the war Spencer served in Company G, 5th Battalion, 
of the Home Defense Reserves, for about 18 months, and did riot 

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and police duty in South Philadelphia. His daughter, Adelaide, 
served in the Post Office Department, Washington. Her husband 
served as ensign in the Navy (paymaster at Washington) and his 
other son-in-law served as lieutenant in the Army and was stationed 
at Aberdeen, Md., Ordnance Proving Grounds. 

Spencer is a land yachtsman, for when he slams his desk and 
wants a sail, he siezes the steering wheel of his automobile craft, and 
with responsive obedience to his every touch, he navigates thro' the 
reefs of traffic, with watchful eye upon the gusts and blasts of the 
temperamental traffic officers, with much of the tension, zest and 
enjoyment of speed and control that the water skipper is apt to think 
can only be found in the sailing of a boat. 

DANIEL MORRELL STACKHOUSE 

There are all the earmarks that Stackhouse — whom it will be 
remembered joined the Cambria Steel Company as assistant super- 
intendent, in Johnstown, Pa., in 1909 — has settled down there as a 
local captain of industry and a citizen to boot and to the good. For 
we find him still there, still in that position and in addition a direc- 
tor of the Johnstown Water Company and of the Franklin and Con- 
emaugh Water Company, and president for six years of the Lee 
Homeopathic Hospital, to say nothing of his interests and associa- 
tion with Cambria or Sunneliana Country Club, the American In- 
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the American Iron 
and Steel Institute, the Union League of Philadelphia, the Johnstown 
Sportsmen's Club and as well, president of the Johnstown Tennis 
Club. All of which is by no manner of means overlooking the fact 
that the chairman of the Cambria County Council of National De- 
fence, during the war, was — Stackhouse. 

Of his children, Powell III is Wharton '23, U. of P., and 
was in the Students' Army Training Corps, while Daniel M., Jr., 
is Mechanical '26, the same place. 

Stackhouse's pleasure is reading, — history, — and his outdoor de- 
lights, tennis, hunting, and tramping. His hobby is hunting and 
his weakness, he says, is "procrastination," which latter we greatly 
question, believing that like a spot on one's clothes, such often looms 
up larger to the owner than to anyone else. He further says: 

"One of the pleasures of life is to attend our class reunions; and while 
distance, time and cost have prevented my attendance at many of our '87 

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functions, those participated in have been keenly enjoyed. There is an 
element of pathos in seeing the stalwart men of '87 grow whiter, balder or 
feebler and to have the ranks grow thinner due to the loss of some good old 
classmate. In the years to come, we should make added effort to maintain 
our annual reunions." 

GEORGE ROBINSON STEARNS 

Stearns continues in Philadelphia, engaged in architecture on 
the lines in which we have associated him in the past, excepting that 
where the firm named used to be Stearns & Coster, in 19 16 it was 
changed to and now is Stearns & Woodnutt. 

He is a member of the American Institute of Architecture, the 
Union League of Philadelphia, the Radiant Star Lodge, F. & A. 
Masons; the Philadelphia Consistory, Scottish Rites; the Philadel- 
phia Rifle Association and the Camp and Trail Club. But beyond 
this, or as to his professional work, and war work, his family, his 
pleasures and his vices, he sayeth naught. For this we are sorry, as 
Stearns is so remembered as being ever in interest for '87 and a good 
attending member of most of its Reunions. Well do we recall a tug 
ride on the billowy Delaware that he once extended us. 

WITMER STONE 

Wilson Audubon Stone — and if that is not his name, it ought 
to be, for he is certainly a bird of a worker — avis everii occupiedis 
would be our term. 

Executive curator and administrative head of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences, and given a degree by the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, he is a tireless, plodding, steady, indefatigable, patient, per- 
sistent and a few other kinds of a worker, primarily for the academy, 
and largely for every body of which he is a member or with which 
he is associated. He is special curator, Department of Inverte- 
brates; secretary of the Ludwick Institute; editor of the Auk, the 
world's leading ornithological journal, and as for his associations, his 
list is only surpassed by Frankel's. It would run off the sheet, off 
the desk, around the block and back again, if the names, we believe, 
were put end to end. A portentous list, an amazing list: ornitho- 
logical, philosophical, entomological, ichythological, herpetological 
and all the other 'logicals! Look at it: 

Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; 
American Philosophical Society; 

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Philadelphia Zoological Society (honorary member, a director 

and member Executive Committee) ; 
Philadelphia Botanical Club; 
Philadelphia Mineralogical Club; 

Delaware Valley Ornithological Club (president, 1891-92) ; 
American Entomological Society; 

American Ornithologists' Union (president, 1921-1922) ; 
American Society Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; 
American Society Mammalogists (a director) ; 
American Association Advancement of Science ; 
American Association of Museums ; 
Historical Society, Pennsylvania ; 
Franklin Inn Club ; 
Philobiblon Club; 

Honorary member, Linnaean Society, New York; 
Honorary member, British Ornithologists' Union; 
Honorary member, Netherlands Ornithological Club; 
Graduate member, Sigma Xi Society; 
U. P. Alumni Society Graduates Students (president, 1922). 

Aside from professional and technical work, Stone is a member 
of the editorial board of the Alumni Register of the University of 
Pennsylvania; he is secretary of the Class of '87, and he modestly 
says, "I have done what I could to promote the University's in- 
terests and to help along any special movement." 

Stone's work and pleasures are so closely interwoven that what 
was his former (ornithological study) has now become his pleasure. 
In other words, the executive work of the museum has grown so 
that his special scientific interest — when he has a chance at it — is 
now a relief, a pleasure and his hobby — ; birds and the editing of 
the Auk. The high point is found in his summer outings, camping 
and tramping in the real wilds, of which a notable instance was his 
summer in the foothills of Arizona, a couple of years ago. When 
Stone cannot go to Arizona or some such long distance place, he goes 
to Cape May — and then a new crop of "life stories, " from blue 
crabs to white-tailed eagles, is foisted upon the public and the mu- 
seum, and the lecture course for the ensuing winter is assured of 
talent! And if there be a crowd of navy gobs nearby, or an army 
hospital, with restive blue-coated boys, you will be sure to find Stone, 
doing — not the pyrotechnic, but his better than that — his Golden 
Rule quiet bit, in talks or whatnot to help while away the time. 

In all the notes of worth and trueness in '87's carillon, not one 
rings truer than that of Stone. 

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GEORGE FLOWERS STRADLING 

If '87 ever essays to build a metaphorical ship of state, there 
will be no sounder, stauncher, stronger or better timber to be found 
than Stradling. Dependable, sound, progressive, consistently doing 
daily and ever bettering work, a foremost figure in his educational 
field, he has been honored past and present, by institutions, colleges, 
scientific and civic bodies to a degree that warms the cockles of '87's 
collective heart. For instance, a former president of the Physus 
Club of Philadelphia, he is a fellow of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, and his paper on "Modern Theories 
of Magnetism" drew from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, 
the Edward Longstreth Medal of Merit, while his tenure of head of 
the Department of Science in Philadelphia's great Northeast High 
School was ended, merely that he might be promoted to the being 
head of the whole institution ! In church work he is president of the 
Philadelphia Conference Education Society of the M. E. Church, 
and secretary of the Trustees of the Philadelphia Conference Edu- 
cational Fund ; and doing his bit in war times, he helped establish 
agencies in various States by which some hundreds of men applied 
for commissions in the Aviation Corps in 191 7, and later was Y. M. 
C. A. Secretary and then member of the Army Educational Corps, 
Beaune, Cote d' Or, France, early in 19 19, holding the honor of 
chairman of the Department of Physics, College of Science, A. E. 
F. University. 

"All great men have their weaknesses" and Stradling is the first 
'87 man to confess that his mental pleasure is reading novels. His 
physical pleasure he finds in the woods and the mountains, and his 
pet hobby is the study of the language and the life of France. 

He states as to his chief vice, "Mrs. Stradling has the informa- 
tion but declines to divulge it." As to his message to the Class, 
whether in pathos, bathos, profanity or other terms, he says: 

"Hoping against hope, I have been waiting in vain for an access of 
any of the qualities named (in which the message may be couched). I have 
even tried to borrow a Sanskrit book, but this endeavor, too, has met with 
no success. As a last resort let me find refuge in a plain statement of well- 
tried fact, — You men of '87, I am mighty fond of you!" 

JOHN HENRY SUPPLEE 

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JOHN WILLIAM THOMAS 

Thomas writes that he is no longer with the Thomas Iron Com- 
pany at Alburtis, Pennsylvania, as per last history, but that in 19 14 
he went to Littlestown, Pennsylvania, where he is manager of the 
Littlestown Silk Company; "Commission Throwsters," as his letter- 
head reads. The "reg'lar" Historian, Ashbrook, the most literary 
book "case" in the Class in many respects, would of course have 
known what a "throwster" is, at once, but the Acting Historian 
confesses he had to go to the dictionary to find out that it means the 
making of raw silk. 

Thomas was made a director of the Littlestown Bank in 191 5 
and is still on its board, and this year he was made town Burgess. 
Beyond that we are advised of nothing. 

FRANCIS WILSON TRIMBLE 

Trimble seems to be alive and in good health, but the nearest 
to a return that comes from him is: 

"Haverford Court, Haverford, Pa. 
"My dear Ashbrook: 

Your very cordial letter of the 22nd was received this morning. 
I regret that I will be unable to attend '87's reunion this year, as I am 
considering going abroad and will probably not be here at the time. 

I was very glad indeed to hear from you again, but sorry to learn that 
you have been laid up with grip. I remember with much pleasure our 
several meetings and will hope to have the pleasure of seeing you again in 
the near future. 

With kindest regards, and best wishes for your welfare, I am 

Yours sincerely, 

Francis W. Trimble." 
April twenty-fourth. 

JOSEPH CHRISTIAN WAGNER 

Still the same ; the same able civil engineer in Philadelphia ; the 
same cordial classmate, warm in '87's interest, and the same un- 
married condition of the past, all as heretofore excepting that the 
last is even a little more so. 

Specifically, Wagner has been for a number of years, Surveyor 
and Regulator of the Ninth District, Department of Public Works, 
Bureau of Surveys, Philadelphia. Early in 1920, however, he was 
transferred to and he was for awhile both assistant to and Acting 



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Director of Public Works, and he is a member of the Zoning Com- 
mission. 

In clubs we find him ranging from, and to, and inclusive of — 

The American Society of Civil Engineers ; 

The Engineers' Club of Philadelphia (director and vice-president) ; 

Historical Society of Pennsylvania; 

The Houston Club (life member) ; 

The Union League of Philadelphia ; and 

The Beaver Run Hunting and Fishing Club, 
away up in Pike County. He is the author of numerous articles in 
the daily press and in the journals and transactions of the engineering 
clubs and societies. 

His inventions he describes as many and varied, but unfortu- 
nately not as yet patented, and being largely of the character of 
circum-ventions ! His war work was on the lines of Red Cross and 
church parish activities in the entertainment of boys in uniform, etc. 
In University work and relation, Wagner was president one year 
of the Engineering Alumni Society, also one of the Board of Direc- 
tors, and on the Committee for Special Campaign for Provost's 
House Fund. He is also a vice-president of the Hayes Mechanics 
Home at Overbrook. 

Since, as Wagner expresses it, "the decadence of the theatre" 
he finds his best mental relaxation in general reading; his physical, 
in anything that gets him out of doors (Would this include a 
"bouncer" or a fire?) ; church music is his hobby and as for weak- 
nesses, he says that he has none. He states that he is strong at all 
points; and he has no wife to dispute it. Wagner's message to '87: 
"As the circles are drawn tighter and closer by the passing out of some 
of our best beloved Classmates, the spirit of '87 should if possible grow 
stronger for the maintenance of the unmatchable reunions which have in 
all the past years been one of her distinguished characteristics, and should 
make for an even closer and more intimate touch also with the General 
Alumni and University affairs that will keep that same spirit young and 
virile. — This thought brings the message up to almost eighty-seven words." 

MARCUS AURELIUS WEEMS 

With Lincoln in Florida, Salter in Duluth, and Weems in 
Texas, '87 has fairly well established long distance medical outposts 
at the far corners of the U. S. A. 

Weems came from Columbia, Texas, took his courses, returned 
to Columbia and ever since has been thereabouts. That he has pros- 



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pered as a country physician, we trust and believe, and there is some 
color to such surmise from his statement that he is the owner of a 
general merchandise store "run for me, in my name." 

That he is in touch with the best of the profession in his section 
is shown by his membership in the Harris County Medical Society, 
the Brazoria County Medical Society, the Texas State Medical As- 
sociation and the American Medical Association. (He would seem 
to be sufficiently fixed from a Volsteadian perspective!) 

Still unmarried, he characterizes himself as an absolute old stag 
and living with his sisters. He made four attempts to get into war 
service, even journeying all the way to Washington to that end and 
to his regret was rejected because of "rhymal defects," with at any 
rate the result that the Red Cross and other charities at home have 
been the gainers by his services. There is a homely strength and 
interest in his answers to the last four questions of the question sheet : 

Mental pleasure: "Reading and reflecting on the happy days about 
Philadelphia, when a student." 

Physical: "Hunting and fishing." 

Hobby: "Preaching the evil effects of coffee and tea drinking!" 

Weakness or vice: "You are getting personal now, and I had better 
keep quiet before I tell on myself." 

He adds: "My life is a very uneventfful one. A country practitioner of 
Medicine. I regret that I could not have entered the Service." 



EDWARD LOWBER WELSH 

No reply. 

WALTER WELSH 

No reply. 

JACOB GARABRANT NEAFIE-WHITAKER 

From the memoranda as to Whitaker's experience in boat and 
shipbuilding, and of his travels across the briny and from his yacht 
memberships, as related in earlier histories, the editor quite expected, 
in Whitaker's return, to at least smell salt! He does, but that is all. 

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For beyond the mention of his membership in the Art and Racquet 
Clubs of Philadelphia, the Corinthian and the New York Yacht 
Clubs and the Yachtman's Club of Philadelphia — wherein his 
commodoreship covers four years — and of being a lieutenant-com- 
mander on patrol duty in the war, Whitaker tells us nothing and 
leaves us flat! We are lost therefore in the fog and mists and spume 
of the seas, and the binocularizing of any other facts for entry in this 
log book is undone. However, J. G. N. gave us an extremely nice 
time at the mid-winter reunion last, thro' the medium of the Corin- 
thian Yacht Club, and we love him still ! 



LOUIS PIERS WHITE 

White is neck and neck with Wagner; in continuing in Phila- 
delphia ; in continuing in the same line of work year in and year out, 
and in — so far — the successful escaping of the blandishments of the 
modern vamp, who with a shrinking modesty in inverse proportion 
to her shrinking clothes, threatens to out-Cleopatra the original 
Cleopatra! For White is also still single. But while Wagner roams 
the city as an engineer, White sticks to one spot, as wholesale jeweler, 
in the heart of the city — 105 South nth Street — where he says: 

"I will be pleased to welcome any member or members of 
'87 at any time." 

Active in that line of business since 1885, White is now a leader 
in it, and treasurer as well of the National Association of Wholesale 
Jewelers. His pleasure is his business ; he denies a hobby, and "hates 
to confess" his weakness or vice, and therefore does not! A good 
friend of the Class; and may his threshold be crossed by numerous 
members of the Class, bearing in mind his invitation above! 



ALAN DEAN WHITTAKER 

"A. D." meaning Anno Domini, as he was termed in his early 
days, has been by the grace of fate and the United Gas Improvement 
Company of Philadelphia, a gas engineer all his life, and — as such — 
he gravitated in 1908 to Atlanta. In that "most northern city of 
the South," as it has been aptly termed, Whitaker has since re- 
mained, as manager of the Atlanta Gas Light Company's works, now 



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merged into the Georgia Railway and Power Company's system. 
Settling down, and with the full momentum of his best years, we 
find him, in his professional interest, a member of the American Gas 
Association since 1900; in his civic interest a member of the Atlanta 
Chamber of Commerce; in his human interest a scout master, Boy 
Scouts; and in self interest, to match Ashbrook's celebrated pro- 
nunciamento, a member of the National Geographic Society. His 
writings have been mostly around his professional work, papers upon 
various gas engineering topics, etc. 

Of his children, Richard Hildebrandt, aged eighteen months, 
died in June, 1912. His eldest boy, Alan Dean, Jr., was in the 
Georgia School of Technology — Electric Engineering — '22 ; he was 
also an expert in radio telegraphy, and when the war broke out he 
was appointed instructor in radio in the air service branch of R. O. 
T. C. at Georgia Tech. He also enlisted in U. S. Army and was 
retained as instructor in radio and was transferred to Souther Field, 
Ga., in same capacity and remained there until discharged from the 
Army in May, 19 19. He finished his course in electrical engineering 
at Tech. in 1921 and accepted appointment as second lieutenant in 
the Coast Artillery branch of the Army and is stationed at Fort 
Monroe, Va. He is now first lieutenant. 

His second son is a fine '87 chip. The minute he was sixteen 
and therefore legally able, he was working in a shell factory in At- 
lanta, in 19 1 8, making message carriers par excellence to the Kaiser! 
Whittaker himself was in war work in a measure, via the Red Cross, 
etc., but he says that his hardest work was to keep the holders afloat 
in the war period. "It was fight, fight, fight to keep gas on the 
town, to promote war work, in spite of shortage of men and ma- 
terials." But he did it. 

Mental pleasures of Whittaker are safe and sane as to the first 
and last of the three that he names, but whether the same can be 
said of the middle one all depends upon whether he tends towards a 
depiction of the highbrow or a Hollywood "Decadence of Rome" 
with no-piece suits, in visual allegation. For "music — movies — read- 
ing" is the trio that he reports. But there can be no debate as to his 
outdoor sports. The six Whittaker brothers marshalled and lined up 
in church by a watchful pair of parents, were a spectacle in days of 
forty years ago to the editor's eye, in demure contrast to the liveli- 
ness of the youngsters on week-days. And what an overhang! for 



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even yet does A. D. report "golf, motoring, hiking, cycling, or swim- 
ming." We warrant that the choice of one as against another is but 
a splitting of hairs, and that Whittaker's calf muscles, too, are going 
strong and closely trailing Pepper's and Jack Harris! Whittaker's 
special hobby is that of the real dad, "My four boys," while his 
weakness, as described by the Century Dictionary, is "breathing with 
a rough, hoarse noise in sleep" ; or, as described by Whittaker, 
"snoring" ; » 

His message: 

"One hundred words are far too few for a thousand memories of Old 
Penn and '87 — God bless them. I have been too busy in the last ten years 
to make money and the dollar sign is absent, but I feel richer in a sense of 
achievement over the difficulties of war times; richer in the maturing of 
my sons and always rich in the urge of the '87 spirit — that marvelous spirit 
that pervades us — not forced by oath or pledge or secrecy but strong and 
open and time-proof." 



RICHARD WILSON 

Fine and breezy word comes from Wilson, — still another of 
the eight cylindered medical motor squad that '87 turned out, and 
almost everyone of which has been hitting on all eight since! And 
while Lincoln is in Florida, Wilson outdistances him, being in 
Havana itself. 

Born in Santiago, Wilson after getting his diploma and re- 
maining in Philadelphia for several years, and a strenuous record in 
the Spanish War, returned to Santiago, where he was for some 
years, all as related in the previous histories at some length. He 
then removed to Havana, August 1, 19 12, where he was appointed 
acting assistant surgeon U. S. Public Health Service, attached to 
the Consulate General, in which service he has continued. But 
while officially attached, in practice, he has separate offices conven- 
iently located on the water front. His duties as assistant surgeon 
are those of quarantine officer and as such he has been through 
three epidemics of Bubonic plague (191 2- 14- 15) and one of small- 
pox in 1920. 

He is a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of 
the U. S., as well as of the College, Medical, and General Alumni 
Societies of the University of Pennsylvania. Still unmarried, he 



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reads, walks, hunts up early Spanish-American history as a hobby, 
and advances his chief weakness, as "being still poor." 

Whether the following is merely a notification or is an invita- 
tion is open to debate, but if it is the latter, we fear White's and 
Brown's and other invitations, will find it hard to compete with ! 

"In view of the reference to the Volstead act in the first page, I will 
tell my Classmates that Havana is the nearest oasis to Philadelphia; 48 
hours by train will bring them here. Those that are in great haste can 
gain time by taking an aeroplane, of which there is a regular daily service 
with Key West." 

Speaking in that language that will soon be of Sanskrit and the 
other dead ones, in the belief of some, but not of all: "Here's how," 
to live-wire Wilson, in Havana, from all the Class. 

JAMES LONGACRE WOOD 

It is pleasant to have a few lines from Wood, and more would 
have been all the better. 

After extensive art studying in Paris, in early days, and in 
study, instruction and art work in Philadelphia, some years ago, 
Wood moved to the Water Gap section on the Upper Delaware. 
For the period 19 16-21 he records himself as pastor of Dingman's 
M. E. Church. At present, however, having returned to the Phila- 
delphia district, he is living at Ambler, where he is occupied largely 
in landscape painting. 

He is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and 
also of the American Society for Psychical Research. 

A daughter — Sarah — is on the rolls of Bryn Mawr; '24. 

WILLIAM STETLER WRIGHT 

No reply. 

WILLIAM TOWNSEND WRIGHT 

Cometh the smell of the clover and the whiff of the cider, for 
a good note from old farmer Wright, tells us that he is still resi- 
dent at St. Davids, surburban to Philadelphia, and therefore we 
joyously note, still conveniently able we hope, trust and pray, to 
continue to extend to '87 those many courtesies that have become 

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almost a habit with him, and for which the Class is especially be- 
holden to him. Who will forget the exceptional pleasure found at 
State in Schuylkill, twice availed of through Wright's niceness (the 
27th — and the 30th — annual Reunions) as well as minor thought- 
fulness with his initials and compliments attached, frequently be- 
tween times. The editor, never faltering — as will have been ob- 
served in the perusal of the pages preceding, — from the highest level 
of English idiom or expression, cannot say therefore that Wright is 
the right Wright, all right, all right, but nothing can stop his think- 
ing it! 

Wright is not in commercial lines, but he finds no lack of oc- 
cupation, quite aside from the running of his farm. He is one of 
the Radnor Township Commissioners, and chairman of the high- 
ways, in that populous district ('87 speedsters take a tip, and ask 
for Wright if hauled up!) a director of the local Wayne Title & 
Trust Company, and a member of a lot of organizations and clubs 
previously listed. 

During the war, Wright's son, William Cox, enrolled in the 
Naval Reserves at Newport. He received his appointment that 
autumn and entered the Officers' Training School at the Naval 
Academy in February, 191 8. He received his commission in the 
spring and joined the Atlantic fleet and remained with the fleet until 
the end of the war, and resigned in December and returned to Yale, 
to finish his last year. 

In the grandfather class, Wright wears two stripes on his 
sleeve, signifying the second degree, as a result of William I. Forbes, 
arrival in June, 19 15, and of Charles F. Forbes, June, 19 18. 

White is ostensibly another of those like Newbold, who finds 
his pleasure in his work, if his statement can be accepted that he 
finds his greatest mental joy in trying "to locate money enough to 
pay taxes and bills." As a definition of joy, this is both novel — and 
we believe, — unpopular. His physical pleasure he says, is trying to 
make himself fit his old clothes. Whether this reflects a growing 
waist line, and a chopping of the wood pile, a la Pepper and others, 
is unrevealed. His hobby is specific: "Delivering lectures on pro- 
hibition" ; yet whether for or against is left to surmise, until one 
remembers that Wright is a member of the State in Schuylkill, and 
surely that portion will apply of Shakespeare's epitaph, that reads 



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"And cursed be he," who would go back on the traditions of its 
justly celebrated fish house punch. 

Wright says that his greatest weakness or vice — is skating. 
Reprehensible indeed! He sends this kindly thought of the Class, 
to the Class, as his message : 

"I have found very few compensations in old age, but the 
one thing that stands out and seems worth while is the gather- 
ing together of old '87." 

As to old age, Wright should remember that he is not yet even 
middle aged, as middle age has been defined, as always five years ahead 
of one's own age! 



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John Allen 



Franklin Lee Altemus 





David Werner Amram 



William Sinclair Ashbrook 





Lewis Ellsworth Bailey 



Henry Price Ball 





Edward Charles Batchelor 



Heston Bates 





William Caspar Benkert 



Charles Seligman Bernheimer 





Alexander Mercer Biddle 



Charles Bloomingdale, Jr. 





Joseph Spencer Brock 



Clarence King Brown 





Henry Longstreth Brown 



Francis Asbury Bruner 





Herbert Bancroft Carpenter 



Crawford Coates 





Charles Tyler Cowperthwait 



Edwards Sanford Dunn 





Edgar Pardee Earle 



George Fetterolf 





John Sims Forbes 



Lee Kaufer Frankel 





George Harrison Frazier 



Frank Bird Gummey 





William Hahman 



Emlen Trenchard Hall 





John McArthur Harris 



John Dawson Hawkins 





William Warner Hill 



Samuel Frederic Houston 





Oliver Huckel 



Frank James Keeley 





Edward Fulbister Kennev 



John Philip Krecker 





Theophilus Kuelling 



Thomas Love Latta 





Joseph Siegmund Levin 



William McLean 





James Francis Magee, Jr. 



Albert Lee Magilton 





Robert Stephen Maison 



Dion Maria Martinez 





James Milliken 



William Romaine Newbold 





William Byrd Page 



John Grubb Parke, Jr 





David Pepper, Jr. 



George Wharton Pepper 





Robert Evans Peterson, 3rd 



Francis John Pryor 





Andrew Perry Redifer 



Randolph Potter Russell 





Arthur John Rowland 



William Holmes Salter 





Andre William Seguin 



Frederick Hart Shelton 





Albert Edward Sholl 



James Reeves Siddall 





James Somers Smith, Jr. 



William Poultney Smith 





Milton Valentine Snyder 



Theodore Nelson Spencer 





George Robinson Stearns 



Witmer Stone 





George Flowers Stradling 



John William Thomas 





Francis Wilson Trimble 



Joseph Christian Wagner 





Louis Piers White 



Jacob Garabrant Neafie-Whitaker 





Alan Dean Whittaker 



Richard Wilson 




William Townsend Wright 



DECEASED MEMBERS OF '87 

By groups, chronologically, and in the periods between the 
successive Class Histories. 



Before graduation in 1887. 

SEAL, WILLIAM LEWIS March 26, 1884 

LYNCH, JOHN January 31, 1885 

From graduation in 1887 to 1892; Fifth year. 

ADAMS, HENRY CLAY May 30, 1889 

BRINTON, GEORGE January 24, 1890 

CAROTHERS, FRANK HERRON 1890 

DROWN, THOMAS DARLING July 13, 1890 

STEVER, HORACE AMBROSE, JR October, 1890 

ANDERSON, FORREST MURRELL January 4, 1891 

FARQUHAR, THOMAS HARRISON December, 1891 

From 1892 until 1897; Tenth year. 

BAUGH, CHAUNCEY RALSTON March 31, 1893 

MILLER, EDWARD ALDEN July 31, 1893 

CRANE, JAMES BURNET August 10, 1893 

GARRETT, CLARENDON HARRIS October 23, 1894 

ENGLE, LOUDON October 27, 1894 

SALTER, ROBERT BOWEN March 15, 1895 

MALLETT-PREVOST, WASHINGTON May 13, 1895 

PRINCE, LEONARD MORTON November 1, 1895 

SMITH, ALFRED HENRY... April 24, 1896 

From 1897 to 1907; Twentieth year. 

LEE, LEIGHTON November 8, 1898 

SHEBLE, FRANKLIN April 20, 1899 

BROOKE, HUGH JONES February 24, 1900 

YOUNG, NORTON BUEL March 30, 1900 

AUDENRIED, WILLIAM FRANCIS July 28, 1903 

MacLEAN, HEW BRYDON December 1, 1903 

TUCKER, MILES July 20, 1904 

From 1907 to 1912; Twenty-fifth year. 

SEYFERT, HENRY HUNTER June 21, 1907 

MURPHEY, HYLAND CLARKE July 24, 1907 

COLLADAY, THEODORE FRANCIS March 19, 1908 

WEAVER, JOHN WALLACE June 2, 1908 

THURLOW, JAMES ABBOTT April 14, 1910 

FARNUM, PAUL May 30, 1910 

HANCOCK, GEORGE BACON June 22, 1910 

LYSTER, NELSON O March 16, 1911 

HOVEY, JOHN JULIUS May 25, 1911 

TRIMBLE, ALFRED HOWARD November 8, 1911 

HALL, DOUGLAS MORGAN March 9, 1912 

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From 1912 to 1919; Thirty-fifth year. 

EYSTER, JOSEPH ALLISON July 31, 1912 

BOYER, WALTER NAYDAL October 16, 1912 

BRUNNER, CHARLES THOMAS PARRY May 26, 191 3 

SMALTZ, HENRY NAGLEE August 9, 1914 

TOWNSEND, CHARLES COOPER October 4, 19 14 

ALLEN, WILLIAM February 18, 1915 

HAWORTH, JAMES April 4, I9 i8 

RUSSELL, ALEXANDER W August 8, 1918 

GRIFFITH, SILAS GODFREY October 10, 1918 

GRISCOM, CLEMENT A., JR December 30, 1918 

CLAY, HARRY GIBBS April 24, 1919 

RALSTON, FRANCIS WILLIAM October 8, 1920 

CLINE, ALBERT ROWLAND October 19, I9 2i 

REMONT, REMI April 3, 1922 



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IN MEMORIAM, 1912-1922 



'Ah, speak not thus! He lies not there! 

We see him, hear him as of old! 
He comes! He claims his wonted chair ; 

His beaming face we still behold! 
His voice rings clear in all our songs, 

And loud his mirthful accents rise; 
To us our brother's life belongs — 

Dear friends, a classmate never dies!" 



JOSEPH ALLISON EYSTER, JR. 

DIED JULY 31, 1912 

With the greetings of old classmates still echoing in our ears, 
with our pulse still running high from the pleasure of the meeting, 
and with our hearts still warm from the old memories awakened, it 
is not easy to put into words how profoundly we were moved to hear 
of the death of our classmate, Joseph Allison Eyster, on the 31st day 
of July, 19 12, only six weeks after the twenty- fifth Reunion of the 
Class. Certainly no formal resolution could express the sense of 
personal loss, or the sorrow and grief which Eyster's death occasioned. 

The following informal minute has been adopted by the Class 
and will be duly published after a copy has been sent to the family 
of our classmate. 

Eyster was born in Chambersburg, Pa., in 1865. Entering 
College in Freshman year he soon made his impress upon the Class. 
A man of force and capacity, interested in athletics and the varied 
activities of undergraduate life, he was liked by all and won the 
warmhearted affection of a particularly large number of intimate 
friends, especially in the Wharton School, which he entered in Junior 
year. Returning to Hacetown, West Virginia, after graduation, he 
was, except for several years spent in New York City, associated 
with his father in business under the firm name of Eyster & Son. 
He married Miss E. A. McLeod in 1904; two sons were born to 



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him, Joseph Allison Eyster, Jr., and Donald McLeod Eyster, who, 
with his widow survive him. 

Since graduation it was not given to us to see him as often as 
we should have liked, but the bond of fellowship grew stronger with 
the years, and no returning Classmate made more of us happy in his 
return than did Eyster. He had fulfilled the promise of his youth 
and had shown in the larger world the same ability and force and 
strength that we had come to admire in college. 

His death in the prime of life leaves us bereft of a companion 
whose fine character and strong manhood had won our admiration 
and affection. We feel this loss, even though his memory will always 
abide with us, and following our custom his name will always remain 
upon the Class Roll. 

To his widow, and to his young sons we tender our sincerest 
sympathy in this hour of their affection. It is our privilege to share 
with them the memory of one who was dear to us also; it will be 
the privilege of his sons when they shall enter the University and 
later shall go forth into the greater world to bear worthily the name 
of one honored by all who knew him. 

David Pepper, Jr., 
Louis J. Kolb, 
J. S. Elverson, 
G. W. Pepper, 
Edward C. Batchelor, 
Witmer Stone. 



WALTER NADAL BOYER 

DIED OCTOBER 16, 1912 

December 2, 191 2. 

Representing the College Class of '87 of the University of 
Pennsylvania and on their behalf we desire to give expression to our 
sorrow at the death of our Classmate, Walter Nadal Boyer. 

Although he did not remain long with us in the undergraduate 
days, he always retained his loyalty to Eighty Seven and manifested 
it by frequent attendance at our re-unions where he was one of the 
most welcome. 



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Having a genial, cordial and charitable nature, he had many 

friends in the Class and no enemies. 

In addition to the loss to the Class of a fellow-member, we who 

knew him so well wish to express our sense of personal bereavement. 

He was a good friend, and will always have a warm place in our 

memories. 

Joseph Spencer Brock, 
Thos. L. Latta, 
Wm. McLean, 
John S. Forbes, 
Witmer Stone. 



CHARLES THOMAS PARRY BRUNNER 

DIED MAY 26, 1913 

The Class of '87, "College," of the University of Pennsylvania, 
heard with great sorrow of the death of their Classmate, Charles 
Thomas Parry Brunner. 

He was a faithful student and congenial comrade of Classroom 
and Campus. Unassuming in his manner and unselfish in his nature, 
he won the respect and affection of many friends. 

We wish to show herewith, as far as we may be able, our deep 
respect for his memory, and to extend to his family the full and 
heartfelt sympathy of the Class. 

John Allen, 

Henry L. Brown, 

Edgar P. Earle, 

Witmer Stone, 

Thos. L. Latta, Chairman. 



HENRY NAGLEE SMALTZ 

DIED AUGUST 9, 1914 

Philadelphia, Pa., September 17, 1914. 
The members of '87 have learned with deep sorrow of the death 
of their classmate, Henry Naglee Smaltz, who passed away on the 
ninth day of August, 19 14. 



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During our undergraduate years at college, we learned to know 
him as a friend and student, and to appreciate qualities of mind and 
heart which a quarter of a century of further association has empha- 
sized and which has drawn him closer to us. 

He was a staunch supporter of '87, and gladdened our reunions 
with his hearty and sincere greetings. 

His place can never be filled ; his memory will ever be cherished, 
and we shall think of him always as a loyal classmate, a firm friend, 
and a valued companion. 

We extend our sincere sympathy to his widow and children in 
their bereavement. 

William S. Ashbrook, 
Louis J. Kolb, 
J. Somers Smith, 
Louis P. White, 
William C. Benkert. 



CHARLES COOPER TOWNSEND 

DIED OCTOBER 4, 1914 

Charles Cooper Townsend was born April 20, 1867. He pre- 
pared for college in the William Penn Charter School. He entered 
the Department of Arts of the University of Pennsylvania in the 
autumn of 1883. He graduated, with the degree of A.B. in 1887. 
He took his LL.B. in 1891. Shortly thereafter he became an in- 
structor in the Law School and later a member of its faculty. He 
attained eminence at the Philadelphia Bar. He rendered faithful 
and efficient service in many positions of trust and confidence. At 
the time of his death on October 4, 19 14, he was an active member 
of the firm of Townsend, Elliott & Townsend and, as such, was 
enjoying a large and lucrative legal practice. 

He was a many-sided man. He had intellectual gifts of a high 
order. He was at once remarkably acute and eminently sane. He 
was a diligent student, with an orderly mind and a powerful memory. 
He had a genuine love of out-of-door life. He was a thorough sports- 
man and was always at home in the woods. A good shot and a skil- 
ful fisherman, he was never happier than when off on a trip to his 



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gunclub near Bridgeton, New Jersey, to his stream in Monroe 
County, Pennsylvania, or to his hunting preserve in the Canadian 
woods. 

He was a man of wide reading and of excellent literary taste. 
He was a lover of music and was appreciative of the best in drama 
and opera. Socially he was a delightful companion. No one could 
be dull or dispirited when he was of the party. Open handed and 
generous, he was always ready to place himself and his means at the 
disposal of his friends. 

While taking an affectionate pride in his attainments, it is not 
for these things that his classmates loved him. We think of him less 
as an able lawyer and an inspiring teacher than as a wholesome, 
vigorous, rollicking fellow who was active in every department of 
college life, welcome in every group, and sorely missed when the 
class met without him. Memory recalls his classroom escapades. 
"Townsend," said dear old Dr. Muhlenberg, in Freshman Greek, 
"we are your friend. Your scholarship is excellent but your conduct 
is scandalous." Those of us who have tramped and camped with 
him will never forget his humorous stories and his capital songs. 
Those who were his companions in travel remember his quick per- 
ception and his capacity for enjoying the best in nature and art. 
Those whose intimate friend he was had tried his affection and found 
it strong and lasting. He was an embodiment of the Spirit of '87 
and with him much of our light has gone out. 

On Behalf of the Class, 

Charles T. Cowperthwait, 
Joseph S. Elverson, 
Thomas L. Latta, 
Witmer Stone, 
George Wharton Pepper. 



REVEREND WILLIAM ALLEN, JR. 

DIED FEBRUARY 18, 1915 

The College Class of '87 of the University of Pennsylvania 
have learned with deep sorrow of the death of their esteemed Class- 
mate, William Allen, Jr. In the intimate intercourse of college 

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days, they learned to honor and love him for his sincerity, his 
ability and his sterling character. And since those days, they have 
been interested in all his career, in his several important pastorates 
and his varied labors for the public good. They rejoiced in his suc- 
cessful work as an earnest, faithful and honored minister in his 
church. They have always been glad to see him again on his return 
visits to his Alma Mater in the fellowship of the Class of '87 which 
he loved and which returned his affection. They feel that in his 
death they have lost a good and true friend, and they tender to Mrs. 
Allen and her family most sincere and heartfelt sympathy in this 
great bereavement. 

The Class has directed that this memorial minute be sent to 
Mrs. Allen and also be made a part of the permanent record of the 
Class. 

Oliver Huckel, 
George F. Stradling, 
David W. Am ram, 
Witmer Stone, 

Committee. 



JAMES HAWORTH 

DIED APRIL 4, 1918 

The members of the Class of '87 of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, have learned with sorrow of the death of their classmate, 
James Haworth, April 4th, 19 18. 

Our recollections go back to the time when he became a member 
of the Class in Senior Year, an earnest student with a rugged intel- 
lectual honesty which made it a matter of conscience with him to do 
his own thinking and not to take for his own any concept which he 
had not himself tested. Older by several years than those with 
whom he attended lectures and recitations, he seemed a little wistful 
of the exuberant high spirits of some of the Class, but there was some- 
thing very winning in this wistfulness, and the more thoughtful mem- 
bers of the Class found themselves attracted to him. Rigorous with 
himself in matters of mental discipline, he believed that each man 

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had to work out his own intellectual salvation. Consequently, there 
was a fine spirit of tolerance in him, and when he spoke of something 
he had worked out for himself, it was with a shy hope that his hearer 
might be in agreement. It was a charming trait, and it was a matter 
of regret to us when Haworth left the city, for when he returned 
to re-enter his father's business with greatly increased responsibilities 
we rarely saw him. He married in 1900, and for a number of years 
had been living in Primos, in Delaware County. Some of us had 
remarked that he was looking frail and we suspected that he had been 
overworking. It had not occurred to him to spare himself in his 
business; all the rest of his existence centered in his wonderfully 
happy home life and the affection of his wife and son and daughter. 

Our hearts go out in sympathy to his family in their bereave- 
ment, although the knowledge of how completely they filled his life 
with happiness must be a comfort to them. 

— Minute: from Committee for Class of '87, May, igiS. 



ALEXANDER WILSON RUSSELL 

DIED AUGUST 8, 1918 

Alexander Wilson Russell died on August 8, 19 18. He had 
been in poor health for some years and unable to attend to business, 
but he was full of pluck, and did not let his disablement keep him 
from attending the Reunions of the Class. Some of us had seen him 
shortly before his death and found him still plucky and cheerful, 
but he succcumbed quickly to a heat attack during the extremely 
hot weather which marked the early days of August, 19 18, and the 
news of his death came to us as a shock. 

Possessed of a superb voice he was one of the mainstays of the 
Glee Club during his undergraduate days, and, also of the Chorus in 
the Acharnians. He had, later on, taken to boating and was a par- 
ticularly active member of his boat club at whose up-river house 
various '87 men had found him a wonderful host. He was not only 
unselfish but possessed a thoughtfulness for others in little things 
which in their aggregate outweigh some of the bigger things, and he 
had a whole-souled loyalty to his old friends which was little short of 



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devotion. The memory of his loyalty and devotion and unselfish- 
ness will answer to his name, now that he can no longer answer for 
himself, whenever the roll of '87 is called. 

J. Spencer Brock, 

J. Somers Smith, 

William Sinclair Ashbrook. 



SILAS GODFREY GRIFFITH 

DIED OCTOBER 10, 1918 

In the death of Silas Godfrey Griffith on October 10th, 19 18, 
the Class of '87 suffers the lossof one who was ever loyal and faith- 
ful. He was strong in his attachment to the Class. He was kind, 
genial and attractive in his personality and noted for ability, honesty 
and integrity in the work of his profession ; and those of us who were 
brought into close contact with him feel the loss of a sincere friend 
and associate. 

The Class mourns the loss of Griffith and extends to his bereaved 
family heartfelt sympathy in this time of sorrow and sadness. 

G. L. Martin. 



CLEMENT ACTON GRISCOM, JR. 

DIED DECEMBER 30, 1918 

Among the boys who joined '87 at the beginning of our Sopho- 
more year was Clement Acton Griscom, Jr. He and the others en- 
tered into our fellowship so whole-heartedly that unless one looks 
up the record, one forgets that we did not have the pleasure of as- 
sociation with them during our Freshman year. 

Griscom soon made himself felt in college affairs, in junior year, 
he represented the Varsity both on the football team, and in the 
crew. He did his work at college with interest, notably in Senior 
year, when he was among those who received honors. 

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After graduation, he at once entered the office of the shipping 
firm, and was soon actively engaged in assisting his father in the phy- 
sical management of the great corporation of which his father was 
the head. This work took him from Philadelphia to New York. 
Those of us remaining in Philadelphia, who have attended our re- 
unions with great regularity, have missed him from many of our 
meetings, but he has been with us on a number of occasions. We all 
remember our 20th Reunion, when parading as Musketeers of "The 
Grand Monarque," George Pepper, the master of ceremonies, made 
Clem "Prothos" of the occasion, a tribute to his splendid physical 
proportions, even though some of the other attributes of Dumas's 
here did not apply to our friend. 

After other interests took possession of the International Mer- 
cantile Marine Co., Griscom entered the manufacturing field, and 
developed a Company which has been of great credit to him. 

But it is not in business affairs only that he has made his greatest 
mark. As early as December, 19 14, he had correspondence with a 
German on the questions then so vitally at issue. Griscom's letter 
was published in the London Spectator early in January, 191 5. 

This appreciation of our splendid classmate would be unworthy 
did it not show clearly that long before the greater number of his 
fellow citizens, and at a time when those in the highest authority 
decried such action Griscom took the stand which the nation long af- 
terwards gladly took, even when that stand meant sacrifice. 

We close this minute with an expression of deep sympathy for 
Mrs. Griscom and her two boys, one soon to be an Episcopal clergy- 
man, the other an Army officer, now serving abroad. 

We also quote some of his statements showing his splendid 
stand for morality and for righteousness. 

"As for the main issue, I do not believe that there ever will be, and I 
hope there never can be, a complete understanding between our country and 
Germany so long as the latter country is dominated by the ideals which seem 
to me to be the basis of its manifold activities. So far as I read the situa- 
tion, we and the Germans look at life from different standpoints. * * * * 
I believe that it is not merely a question of a different opinion about 
methods, but that it is a radically different standpoint with respect to prin- 
ciples ; that there is a moral question involved, and about a moral question — 
or, as some would say, a spiritual principle — there is never any hope of re- 
conciling opposing views. * * * * 

It is not a question of arguing; it is not a matter which we can dispute. 
It is a question of fact. If the Germans think that might makes right; if 

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they think that the end justifies the means; if they think that necessity knows 
no law; if they think that their future and their welfare justify this war, 
justify the violation of Belgian neutrality, justify any other breaking of the 
ordinary rules of honor and of morality — and I judge from your article and 
from scores of others which I have seen, that the Germans as a whole do 
think all these things — then all I can say is that the rest of the civilized 
world holds a diametrically oposite view and that no reconciliation is pos- 
sible. * * * * I think that the only sensible thing to do is to go on 
fighting about it, as it does not in the least matter how many people are 
killed, or how much property is destroyed, or what sacrifices are required, 
if an evil influence in the world is destroyed and one of the fundamental 
spiritual principles is vindicated. 

Yours truly, 

C. A. Griscom." 
— Minute: from Committee for Class of '87, February, 1918. 



HARRY GIBBS CLAY 

DIED APRIL 24, 1919 

The midsummer meeting on June 14, 19 19, was saddened by 
the announcement of the death of Harry Gibbs Clay, Jr., at Atlan- 
tic City, on April 24, 19 19. Of the 168 names carried upon our 
Class roll, 47 have entered the Great Beyond. But as they were 
of us in our living career so do we feel that they are still of us, for 
they have played a part in our class life that is not to be forgotten, 
and their names and faces are remembered so that in a very true 
sense they are a part of '87, whether the Class be assembled for a 
reunion or dispersed to its every day work in the world. The bond 
not only holds, it grows stronger. With the steady progression of 
the years it is inevitable that retrospection should bulk larger in our 
lives. In this larger field of retrospection our deceased members 
still continue to play their parts. The fellowship which results from 
thirty years and more of meeting together since we left the Uni- 
versity is actually a closer fellowship than that which existed when 
we were still in college, and the tie which binds us to the dead 
grows stronger with the tie which binds us to the living. Clay 
left us in Sophomore year. He was not often present at our reunions, 
but when we did see him, at reunions or elsewhere, it was touching 
to see how much more closely he felt drawn to us, how much more 



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highly he valued his birthright, so to speak, in the Class of '87. We 
make this mention of his death in the minutes of the Class, to express 
the feeling of sorrow which it causes. 

J. Somers Smith, 
Charles T. Cowperthwait, 
William S. Ash brook. 



FRANCIS WILLIAM RALSTON 

DIED OCTOBER 8, 1920 

The members of the Class of '87 of the College Department 
of the University of Pennsylvania have learned with deep regret 
of the death of their Classmate, Lieutenant Colonel Francis William 
Ralston, of the United States Coast Artillery, at Charleston, South 
Carolina, on Friday, October the eighth, 1920. 

During his twenty years of Army Service, at the posts often far 
distant from Philadelphia, his Classmates have rarely seen Frank 
Ralston, but the ties of friendship formed during his college days 
have never weakened, and his Classmates have followed his career 
with interest, and with pride. 

His letters to the Class, received sometime during every year, 
have shown an increasing desire to be present at the Class reunions, 
and each year it was the hope of his Classmates to have him with 
them again. 

This hope can now never be fulfilled, but his memory will live 
on in the hearts of the Class of '87. 

John Ashhurst, 

Charles T. Cowperthwait, 

Fred W. W. Graham, Chairman. 



ALBERT ROWLAND CLINE 

DIED OCTOBER 19, 1921 

Albert Rowland Cline died at Easton, Pennsylvania, on October 
19th, 1 92 1. We heard of his death with a peculiar feeling of sad- 

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ness and regret, for his sturdy manhood had won our cordial esteem 
and his loyal comradeship our warm affection. He had filled a 
place all of his own in the life of the Class. 

Our minds go back involuntarily to our undergraduate days 
when the words "short stop" and Al Cline were synonymous to us. 
It is not, however, his dexterity which we now remember chiefly, 
although he was a most capable player. What we dwell upon now, 
as we look back, is that he showed in his playing those sterling qual- 
ities of courage and dependability, of manliness and helpfulness 
which were to mark his after career in life. 

Obtaining his degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1888, Cline 
was variously employed until 1893, when he entered the service of 
William Wharton, Jr., & Company, Incorporated, becoming in 1897 
Superintendent, and in 1904 Assistant Manager. To this firm he 
gave life work, being still in the service of the Taylor- Wharton Com- 
pany at Easton at the time of his death. 

He married in 1893, Miss Laura Sylvester Moore, who died 
some five years ago. He left four daughters, Mary, Alberta, Laura 
and Ruth. He was a good husband and a good father. It was at 
not a little sacrifice to himself, personally, that he put the two elder 
daughters through college. The third daughter at the time of his 
death, was a junior at Wilson College, Chambersburg. The young- 
est daughter had not reached an age to go to college. , 

He was buried in Woodland Cemetery almost within sight of 
the campus where our undergraduate life was spent. Some seven or 
eight of his old classmates gathered at his grave. It was hard for 
them to realize that his life with us was over, and that he had gone 
to join the increasing section of the Class who have journeyed into 
the far country from whose bourne no traveller returns. But as 
long as there is one of us on this side eternity to answer "here," so 
long shall the name of every.'87 man be kept upon the roll of the 
Class, present with us in spirit, and in fond recollection of the days 
when our ranks were yet unbroken. 

Thomas L. Latta, 
John Allen, 
William S. Ashbrook. 



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REMI REMONT 

DIED APRIL 3, 1922 

Surrounded by the books and other treasured belongings that had 
been his chief companions for many years, Remi Remont realized one 
of his oft expressed wishes. It had long been his desire that when 
death engaged him in the final combat, he might meet him alone 
and this desire was granted. 

This was entirely consistent, for in like manner Remont elected 
to fight all of his battles. Only to a chosen few did he unlock the 
inner sanctuary of his heart and those few can testify from certain 
knowledge of the gentleness of his nature, his warm friendliness and 
universal kindliness ; — his nobility of character and lofty ideals. 

It was no misanthropic attitude that caused Remont to with- 
draw himself from so many of his acquaintances. His cordial smile 
and firm handclasp dispelled any such thought. Wherever he lived, 
all the children of the neighborhood claimed him as their friend 
and would run to welcome him when he appeared. 

Remont possessed notable qualities of intellect, combined with 
rare perseverance and determination. Whatever he attempted, he 
mastered, nor was he ever known to desist from any undertaking 
until the task was completed. 

The men of Eighty-Seven would gladly have known him better. 
They value his memory as of one who upheld the highest standards 
of the Class and who, though seldom appearing at the reunions, was 
none the less loyal to the Spirit of '87. 

Joseph Spencer Brock, 
Francis Asbury Bruner, 
Andrew Perry Redifer. 



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VALEDICTORY 



FORWARD— '87! 

Eyes look to front of us, 

Not to our back; 
Forward the brunt of us, — 

Let none be slack! 
Forward the strength of us ! 

Face the fierce foe! 
Hurl the full length of us, — 

Forward we go! 

Cowards look back of them, 

Loosing their nerve, — 
Come, take a whack at them, 

Scorn they deserve! 
God put the eyes of us 

Looking ahead, — 
Heroes shall rise in us, — 

FORWARD! —or dead. 



— Oliver Huckel. 



The editor has betrayed in the preceding pages an expectation of omit- 
ting all verse from this volume. But when he stumbled across this little 
bit from our own "O. H.," so fine as a valedictory and a present closing 
thought for coming years, — Well, in it went! 



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